Thinking of a second job during uncertainty

SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A
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Have a job that holds my active secret clearance. RIFs have been a rollercoaster where you think you’re gone but then there’s a change or people leave and restructuring has to happen.

I got an offer that will require a public trust. I want to know the risks if I decide to do both with no disclosures. The extra money would be great and then I have extra job security. I know there’s risks but want to know if it’ll signal my current employer at all. Honestly worth the risk right now, everywhere is laying people off, one job just isn’t secure enough anymore.

But if I’ll just get flagged at the gate during the public trust process I’ll just keep looking for something that doesn’t require a clearance at all.

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I believe this is called, omitting, or more plainly said lying.

consequence would understandably be denial and/or revocation in both situations.

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Not to mention termination if one of the employers has strong objections.

Check your current employers HR policies, they may have a process for outside employment. If there’s no conflict of interest it may not be a problem.

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Yeah sounds like it’ll be flagged right out the gate anyway, was having a moment of weakness. Not going to play with multiple cleared jobs.

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Almost all employers require full time employees to request approval for a side job with another employer. This is so they can check into any non-competition violations. They also want to ensure you won’t be working your side gig on their work time (stealing work hours). This is especially true if you have a cleared job. As long as there’s no competition or work time issues, many employers will allow it.

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