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.
I have not. I reached out a week ago to see if they were going to reimburse my moving costs, and i was told no. They are waiting for further guidance.
I was going in as a 12/5, and the sec def denied the waiver list for onboarding regardless of the memo that said they would consider making exceptions.
I have wrote them off at this point and have already sought work as a Contractor again.
My advice is to continue contracting. No one knows when the freeze will end (supposedly end of April). And with all the layoff and let go’s, the pool of cleared people is going to make it hard to get hired if you dont switch your thinking now and move on to get hired elsewhere. I’m already hired again by a previous employer, with the same clearance, getting paid 25k more than the Agency offer. I’m good now.
I will perhaps try again in a few years, but not any time soon. This event has seriously caused some ptsd since I had given up everything to move and make this happen. They closed the door, so im keeping it shut for a while.
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.