Re: Future with Ada

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

O.K. I'm willing to stand corrected. Perhaps there are some companies with
some jobs for which there is an existing clearance requirement. In all the
times I have dealt with defense contractors and in the experience of many of
the people I know in that business, its usually required that you be
*clearable* rather than already cleared. (Although it can get tough to
interview for a job on a project that doesn't exist and you don't have SAR
clearance for it - they can't ask you too many specific questions and they
can't give you *any* answers! {been there, done that} :-)

If Raytheon requires you already be cleared, I'd wonder if it was for some
specific job or is that a general policy? It would give them a bit of
chicken-and-egg problem if they insisted on it across the board, eh? That's
generally why I'd be skeptical of any claim that defense contractors working
with Ada would want an existing clearance in most cases. How do you hire
fresh-outs? Are the only people you can ever hire the ones that work for
your competitors who *did* bite the bullet and get their people clearances?
What happens if all the players follow that policy & the folks with existing
clearances retire?

I do know that it is usually easier/faster to get a clearance if you have
had one in recent history rather than applying for one for the first time or
trying to renew one that has been inactive for a number of years. But
companies still do it - it just takes longer.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> In article <9ttmmk$dg9$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic"
<dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
>
> The phrases "Full-Time Employee" and "Existing clearance required" are
> both present in the Raytheon page:
>
>
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