Data Breach Exposes Thousands of Job Seekers Citing Top Secret Government Work
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#2Putting top secret anything on the Internet seems like the opposite of a good idea.
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#3If you are a spook I wonder how you give references? And if you’ve done anything good you can’t write it on your CV without breaking the law.
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#4Putting top secret anything on the Internet seems like the opposite of a good idea.
4 million people have top secret clearance. what is and isn't a good idea given this state of affairs is ummm...
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/06/12...
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#5If you are a spook I wonder how you give references? And if you’ve done anything good you can’t write it on your CV without breaking the law.
I'm sure there are lots of people paid to not work simply because of what they know
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#6If you are a spook I wonder how you give references? And if you’ve done anything good you can’t write it on your CV without breaking the law.
I'm sure there are lots of people paid to not work simply because of what they know
Close, but not quite how it works - there's actually a series of documentaries about the practice of retiring spies called The Prisoner.
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#7If you are a spook I wonder how you give references? And if you’ve done anything good you can’t write it on your CV without breaking the law.
I left the intelligence community and it was a pain in the ass. There are portions of my career that I simply can't talk about.
My first job out was the worst. Easily half of the "tell me about a time when you.." questions required me to be vague and speak about skills instead of projects, people, customers or goals. I was lucky because the CEO of that company was a friend of a friend and they did a number of classified projects themselves.
If it had been all civilians or non-IC connected firm, it would have been awful.
As a reaction to all that, I went deep into the open source community and blogging with the goal of always having projects and a portfolio I could talk about and show. Best decision I ever made.
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#8If you are a spook I wonder how you give references? And if you’ve done anything good you can’t write it on your CV without breaking the law.
If you're getting another job in intel, you send the references over email on a secure network.
If you're leaving the intel community, chances are your references are really pertinent. All the "I can't say" responses will derail a lot of interviewers though.
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#9Well if Google Reviews are anything to go by, McDonalds is more pleasant than working at/with TigerSwan.
Also, it's amusing that they're blaming this mysterious third-party "TalentPen" whose search results are so scant that they have this very article as one of the top hits. Wouldn't TigerSwan be equally liable for vetting their vendors?
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#10If you are a spook I wonder how you give references? And if you’ve done anything good you can’t write it on your CV without breaking the law.
Quite frankly if you're a spook you don't leave your job until you retire, or you go to the public sector where the bar is "this person has a clearance"
Hiring is not very competitive for government work. They are usually hiring warm bodies with clearances rather than talent.
If you're going from government cleared work to something completely different it's still fine to get a reference from people you worked with, just there are some pieces that are filtered