I am frequently asked by candidates if I can help them to either find a position or be placed into one. This question regularly comes from a wide variety of private and public sector job seekers at many different levels in their careers. Often someone has told the candidate that the best jobs are all “placed” by search firms.
The suggestion that the really good jobs never appear in the public domain and can only found by “knowing someone” is a dated outlook. It is not reflective of the current approach taken by an increasingly large number of organizations who seek security executives. The vast majority of mid- to upper-level, non-cyber-focused security executive roles are still handled internally by HR departments.