The 2k number is what the recruiter had told me. Whether that is an official number is anyones best guess. I’m not as much in the know as probably someone already working from them.
Of course hiring will continue on at some point during the 4 years. Thats for all individuals to decide for themselves to get back on board with an FJO from the gov. Everyone has a different situation.
Apologies, I’m bitter at the moment. I’ve spent 3-4k moving and getting into an apartment here in MD, and 3 days before starting…now i’m just told “sorry, we are not continuing with your FJO and onboarding”.
Contributing to this move, i spent 6k moving from Germany back to the U.S. in Nov. Spent another 3k for my wifes VISA approval to move to the U.S.
The dog cost 2k to fly to the U.S.
This took everything i had, and its taken its toll emotionally and financially to just become a shut door at the last moment.
Good luck to anyone else in staying motivated thru this.
From my perspective, it’s generally not a good time to go changing jobs if you don’t need to. Not only RIF but also the collateral damage with companies and partners losing contracts and getting major budget cuts. Worst of all, from what I’ve seen, they are cutting the lowest hanging fruit right now. So even if you make it to your EOD, seems like they are cutting the newest hires first.
If you have a job and feel it’s reasonably safe, probably best to keep it for now. If you have to find a new job, look for something that’s exempt like National Security and if you have a really good relationship with your current company, work out a backup plan to come back if things go south with the new job. If not a great relationship, not sure about Federal, but for contract, there’s no law requiring 2 weeks notice. You just have to be willing to leave some extra money on the table (unofficially accrued benefits yet to be paid).
I received a Hireview interview request for a tech position at the Agency this week. No other info, no job description, and of course nothing is listed on the website. I’m not planning on doing the interview, but thought others might find it interesting.
those hirevue interviews are bs, having to record your answers to prompts and hit submit, all the while looking at yourself in the camera is so off-putting.
How do you mean? There’s no law against indicating what clearance you have on your resume. Just use common sense. Like don’t specify what info you have access to or what SAP you work on, etc. You can simply say “Active/Inactive DoD TS/SCI + CI Poly” or something to that effect.
I know I can talk about it, but I am not really sure the specifics of how to phrase my clearance due to the CCL. And it seems to confuse contractors when I do not have and jobs on my resume that would have sponsored my clearance
Not sure how to answer since there is technically nothing limiting what you can put on it. Just say the minimum you need to convey your qualifications. Or put everything on it and send to the recruiter via secure/encrypted email. If it helps, you could say for secret service, you could say “a component service of DHS.” For FBI you could say “component of DOJ.”
Here’s the verbiage I’ve been using and I got this from an official publication/guidance from a DoD agency:
Cleared for Top Secret Information and granted access to Sensitive Compartmented Information based on a Single Scope Background Investigation completed in Mmm yyyy
Would it be worth mentioning that in your resume or during the interview? I’m also in a similar situation, except mine is an internship offer that’s currently on hold, but the agency has fully adjudicated my security clearance.
interview request for a tech position at the Agency this week. No other info, no job description, and of course nothing is listed on the website. I’m not planning on doing the interview, but thought others might find it interesting.