If I am understanding correctly, you were able to successfully show your clearance outside of the MD Agency without ever starting there? Does this mean that if I am cleared but haven’t started working at the MD Agency or haven’t signed anything, I can apply to jobs outside the agency and be able to truthfully claim I have a clearance?
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Yes, that’s what it seems like. Took less than a day for the contractor to find it and they saw both the clearance and polygraph.
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Make a profile on clearancejobs.com
Once you’re favorably adjudicated, you can tell recruiters you have a clearance.
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Ah I see. I guess the thing that is tripping me up is whether I am actually favorably adjudicated. To be specific, my recruiter said I was cleared, and that they found job placement with EOD for me, but I hadn’t gotten the FJO yet since the hiring freeze was announced just before they would give me one. I assume it is safe to say that I have been favorably adjudicated if I got to this point, but just for sanity checking, would it be a bad idea to ask my recruiter directly about it? I don’t know if I should be indicating to them that I am interested in using the clearance for alternative employment.
I think you can safely assume your security processing is complete. Companies who have contracts with the agency you applied with should be able to see your security info.
Are you saying clearance visibility only applies to companies contracting with the specific agency I was cleared from? Or is it generally visible? Sorry if I’m asking the same question again, but I just want to make sure I understand correctly.
I may not have worded it clearly, and at any rate this is only my understanding of the situation, not documented fact BUT some IC agencies do not routinely publish clearance information to JPAS/DISS/whatever it is called this week. That database can be accessed by a large number of contractors (through their security officers) to check clearances and clearance eligibility (ie completed and adjudicated investigations).
If a company has a relationship with the agency, their security officers may be able to determine if an applicant has eligibility for access to classified information.
What I don’t know is whether a company that has contracts with multiple agencies can see the eligibility from one agency and use it to get a candidate cleared with another agency.
Hope that helps… and please if anyone can correct or clarify my statement please do!
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anyone have news if the Virginia agency is also on freeze?
I’d say @RandomMan or @Blah-blahh would be the best people to ask that. I didn’t hear anything, neither about a freeze nor about my EOD date. So still standing by as of now, with my status “actively processing.”
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Was just about to reply to this, good looking out.
@returned86form I know they were actively onboarding as of a few weeks ago. What I dont know for sure, is if that was just those already in the pipeline finishing up. I hear conflicting info, some officers I talk to say hiring is frozen or “paused” for now. Then I hear some officers say it’s business as usual.
Basically, I dont think anyone knows a damn thing. I will try to find out more and see what I can pass along.
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Thank you so much for keeping us posted! I’ll check in with my insider contact as well.
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Where I am, they are still actively hiring contractors. But Feds are dropping like M&Ms. Almost every day.
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I am still onboarding for the middle of the year. I’m actually moving states and the movers have been in touch to get new place info. I know two others that have applied one recently and one last year— the most recent one got declined last month and the one from last year still processing
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Thank you, this is very helpful! Good luck with the relocation!
Talked to someone whose spouse is a recruiter, said they are still hiring, but its way slower now. Whatever that technically means, anyone’s guess. But it seems like business as usual (or as close to it as can be).
Leadership did hint at more cuts on the way though, “efficiency” and “doing more with less” and that kinda bs.
Not sure how that works to bring people onboard just to cut or force others out, but these are the times we are in now.
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Thanks for sharing! Just got to the adjudication phase according to my BI. Fingers crossed things work out lol
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Nice! Not totally sure how the BI would know that, but if true thats great news!
For reference, the time from completing my security appts (which I figure is when I moved to adjudication), was almost exactly 2 months. My recruiter had told me prior, that adjudication could be between 2 weeks and 2 months.
Hopefully you fall on the shorter end of the scale. If thats still even the scale haha. Keep us posted!
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Maybe the investigator just knows that his piece of the investigation is finished. As @RandomMan indicates, the investigators don’t usually know what happens with the case after they’re done with it and in most cases they don’t care because they’ve got ten more to finish.
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The investigators don’t know what happens after they complete their part BUT they do know that it goes through review, and at any time during review it can be sent back to investigations. They don’t know when it has been released by review to go to adjudication. So there is no way for them to know if a case has gone to adjudication since there is an entire step in between investigation and adjudication and no updates.
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