What it's like to make the wrong job switch

2011-01-06 11:27

http://www.csoonline.com/article/651482/what-it-s-like-to-make-the-wrong-job-switch By Bill Brenner Senior Editor CSO January 05, 2011 Some of you know the drill: You've been in the same job a long time and you start to feel bored, frustrated, complacent, or maybe a mix of those things. You get an offer from another company that promises you more money, more travel and more opportunity to make a mark on the security world. Then you get there and discover it's not the job you signed up for. Now what do you do? Erin Jacobs, executive vice president and CSO at Chicago-based UCB and a CSO Compass Award honoree in 2010, knows the feeling. She left that company earlier this year to be engagement director for security consultancy IOActive. Things didn't go as planned, but she was lucky enough to be able return to UCBâin a more powerful position than the one she left. After 10 years of being the top management executive in information security and IT over two organizations and not being anywhere close to retirement, she asked herself if she was learning enough to sustain her career over the long haul. With the economy's fluctuation and the landscape of security constantly changing, there is no room for complacency, she says. After she voiced her concerns to an industry colleague, that colleague offered her a position with a company she highly respected: IOActive. [...]

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