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Wondering how many of you guys have your security clearance? Does it help you get a job in the defense/government industry? I am an aerospace engineer and seems like the guys with clearances can demand a lot of money when they find a job that requires a clearance. Is it worth pursuing?
Wondering how many of you guys have your security clearance? Does it help you get a job in the defense/government industry? I am an aerospace engineer and seems like the guys with clearances can demand a lot of money when they find a job that requires a clearance. Is it worth pursuing?
It helps only if you apply for a job that requires it. Also, a person doesn't just put in for a clearance and go through the background investigations at their own bequest. you have to be hired in a position that will require it. Then, you have to be "sponsored" by a government agency; the agency that will be wanting you to do the work. You will get an interim clearance from that agency after a short background investigation (maybe a couple of weeks, depending on the level of clearance) and then comes the long arduous process (after you've filled out 50 or more pages of background information on yourself and your immediate family/friends) of the background investigation, that can take up to 13 months (at least in my case). This was for a Secret level clearance.
It helps only if you apply for a job that requires it. Also, a person doesn't just put in for a clearance and go through the background investigations at their own bequest. you have to be hired in a position that will require it. Then, you have to be "sponsored" by a government agency; the agency that will be wanting you to do the work. You will get an interim clearance from that agency after a short background investigation (maybe a couple of weeks, depending on the level of clearance) and then comes the long arduous process (after you've filled out 50 or more pages of background information on yourself and your immediate family/friends) of the background investigation, that can take up to 13 months (at least in my case). This was for a Secret level clearance.
I am just confirming what said in this post. This is what happened then I got my clearance as well.
I've worked at companies that hired people only because they had the clearance required. The rest of the resume was fluff!
Clearances can be hard to come by these days considering everything going on in the world. If you've done a lot of traveling, ever been arrested for even something minor, are having financial trouble, and so on, a clearance can be denied.
So, taking this into consideration, if a person had an active clearance and lost their job due to a layoff or something, they would have a MUCH easier time at finding work on government jobs because the amount of money it takes to clear a person wouldn't need to be spent. Not to mention the TIME.
Clearances can be denied for a variety of reasons. However, I know of people that have clearances with records. As long as you are honest with questions, then there usually isn't a problem. If you hide it, then you can possibly be blackmailed. They want to make sure that you don't have anything that someone can use against you along with showing good character.
If you go onto www.FederalSoup.com, there's a background investigator that is on there several times a week, and answers questions for people.
Yes, a clearance will help get you a job - clearances talk money. When I worked for DOD, I had very high clearances, and I sure wish that I had them now. I've been on unemployment since March, and trying to get back into the federal government. If they were still using paper applications, I would have been back in by now.
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