Security profession like any other profession in the world is practiced effectively and efficiently on the inherent powers of two formidable strengths. These are the grip and grasp elements that enable security practitioners to display the best of professional enthusiasm and expertise proliferation in facts and feats.
The security practice strengths anywhere in the world are: Competence and Proficiency. The security practitioners must be competent in order to function accordingly and holistically in a given course of action. It implies that the security practitioners must have the necessary skillsets regarding the field of the security vocation in order to practice prominently. This implies that the security practitioners must have the necessary knowledge to be prepared to inform action of relevant needs.
The proficiency need implies that having all the needed skills enables the security practitioners to deploy these relevant skills on jobs to ensure efficiency which is the expected results. The “what” it takes is the techniques for achieving results. Competence is not relevant if it is not proficiently inclined. Professional Competence must necessary inform Professional Proficiency for all time relevant need.
These critical achievement elements are the needs the security practitioners must be engaged in. The security practitioners must have the ability which is competence and the capacity to act which is proficiency. There are the critical factors underlying an experiential achievement in the security professional circles. These competence and proficiency are inseparable rational needs that must necessarily interplay in order to remain all time relevantly assertive in theory and practical needs.
Professional competence and proficiency remain the hidden powers of an Expert.
At the International School of Professionalism (ISP), we believe that professional competence and proficiency are essential to developing capable, confident and effective security practitioners.
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