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Meet the scientist who single-handedly debunked the so-called “Years of Experience” concept to improve hiring/promotion initiatives in our field!

What you’ll learn

  • Why mandating “Years of Experience” is inequitable and harms certain target groups
  • Why subjectively reviewing resumes is not an objective practice for hiring managers
  • The benefits of moving towards performance-based and skills-based interviews
  • Why SFIA is the only objective competency framework that hiring managers should be using
  • Explanation of current immature hiring processes, and why it might not be an actual skills gap
  • Information on becoming a certified SFIA skills assessor and improving hiring/promotions within your workplace

About Our Guest Dr. Blake Curtis

Dr. Curtis is a unique professional. He has over 37 professional certifications and licenses; he completed his bachelor’s degree in 2.5 years, his master’s in 10 weeks, and his doctorate in 2 years and four months.

Dr. Blake Curtis, Sc.D, CISA, CRISC, CISM, CGEIT, CDPSE, CISSP, COBIT. Dr. Curtis has a proven track record of creating global information assurance programs for government, commercial, international, and healthcare sectors. He leads teams that assess various aspects of risk and ensures compliance with applicable state, federal, and regulatory requirements. In addition, Blake manages large initiatives that leverage a combination of governance and security frameworks to develop tailored programs for enterprises.

Dr. Curtis is also a research scientist who led an international study titled “Creating The Next Generation Cybersecurity Auditor” discovered a technical competency gap in Big Four IT Auditors and SMEs. His research results can be generalized to 151,000 IT auditors.

Dr. Curtis also helped debunk the 10,000-hour rule. Most importantly, Dr. Blake Curtis is the first scientist to scientifically debunk the years of experience fallacy. His study proved that task-based experience is more objective than time-based experience. Blake is also the author of “How to Complete Your Master’s Degree in One Semester”. their master’s degrees in record-setting times.