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Demystifying Security Clearances

Presenters: Vala Richmond and Sonia Elwood October 2011 Updated: April 2014 Conference: 866-564-4530 Passcode: 857049#

 Corporate Training Specialist  Regional Trainer

Vala Richmond Sonia Elwood

You’ve been assigned a requisition that requires a security clearance

MUST CURRENTLY POSESS A SECRET CLEARANCE OR BE ABLE TO OBTAIN AN INTERIM SECRET CLEARANCE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF START DATE

What do you feel are the challenges in filling Security Clearance requisitions?

Volt FSO’s

Diana Buthmann  Various VIS and VMC clients as well as Volt Delta Alesa Trager

 All Boeing  Various VIS and VMC clients.

Advantages when Selling

Proven Track Record Experienced FSO’s Established Process

Security Clearances

What are they? How long do they take? What is Volt’s process?

What is a Security Clearance?

Personnel Security Investigations PSI

Security Clearance Types

Confidential information could cause damage to national security

Secret information could cause serious damage

TS/SCI (Secured Compartmented Information) TS/SAP (Special Access Programs)

Top Secret information could cause grave damage

Investigations

Confidential and Secret investigations:

NAC or NACLAC:

National Agency Check and Local Agency Check with Credit Check

Top Secret investigations:

SBI or SSBI: Single Scope Background Investigation

Other investigations include:

Polygraph Full Scope or Polygraph Life Style and Polygraph CI (Counter Intelligence)

How Long Does it Take?

• 1. Ever had clearance?
• 2. Active or Inactive,
• 3. Higher level clearance

needed?

Time to process

• New = 2 months – 1 year
• Transferring Active = a few

days

• Inactive (under 2 years) = a

few days

• Inactive (over 2 years) = same

as New

• Higher level clearance = same

as New

Interim Clearance

Interim Determination will be granted in a short timeframe depending on individual ‘ s background.

Potential issues

• Traveled, lived, worked extensively
• utside US
• Immediate family born in non-US friendly

country

• Financial, credit or background issues

What is Volt’s Process

• What the Branch

does

• What the FSO does

When discussing Security Clearance positions with clients and candidates

Must be US Citizen

No Cost to Branch

Step 1 – Qualifying the Order

Ask the right questions

• What level clearance is required?
• Must it be Active to start?
• Can they start with an Interim

clearance?

• Can they start with lower level

active clearance? For SCI or SAP, notify FSO

(Your job here)

Step 2 – Posting the Position

Post where the right candidates will be looking

• IRT postings

automatically go to VoltMilitary.com and Military Spouse Employment Program (MSEP) websites

Advertising Positions that Require a Secret or Top Secret Clearance

CAN include:

• Type of clearance required –

either Secret or Top Secret

• "Applicants selected must be

able to obtain and maintain a (Secret/Top Secret) clearance for access to classified information." CAN’T include:

• Specific type of background

check required (NAC, SSBI, SCI, Lifestyle Poly, etc.)

You cannot post specific background check details in any Volt posting EVER

Step 3 – Recruiting and Qualifying

VoltTrack Filters on Security Clearance Keywords: “active security clearance: yes”

What keywords do you like to use for recruiting Security Clearance candidates?

Add to your resume-focused search strings for web search

(inurl:~resume| intitle:~resume) + skill keywords + clearance terminology

(inurl:~resume| intitle:~resume) AND (C++ AND Developer AND SQL) AND (“Top Secret” OR TS/SCI OR TS/SAP) (inurl:~resume| intitle:~resume) AND (C++ AND Developer AND SQL) AND (“Top Secret” OR TS/SCI OR TS/SAP) -jobs -careers

Search Engine Search Target Examples Baseline String

Top Secret (“top secret” OR Ts/SCI OR TS/SSBI OR SBI OR TSSCI OR TSSSBI) Note: There is a software program called Top Secret that may come up if you use “top secret” Active Secret clearance (“active secret” OR “active security clearance: yes”) Active Top Secret clearance “active top secret” AND “active security clearance: yes” Types of investigations NAC OR NACLAC OR SSBI OR poly or polygraph [Avoid recruiters & sourcers]  (skills and clearance keywords) AND NOT (recruiter OR recruiting OR hr OR executive) Top secret (ts-level also works in LinkedIn) (top secret OR ts/sci OR ts/ssbi OR “ts level”) Use this statement in front of your search string to pick out resumes. Eliminate job postings by adding -jobs and -careers (intitle:~resume | inurl:~resume ) (followed by skill and clearance keywords) -jobs -careers Top secret (ts-level also works in Google) (top secret OR ts/sci OR ts/ssbi OR “ts level”)

Qualifying the Candidate

CAN’T ask:

Are you a US citizen?

CAN ask:

“This position requires you to

• btain a security clearance, which

requires you to be a U.S. citizen – do you qualify?” “What level of clearance do you currently have?” “Is your clearance active?”

Don’t know termination date = Contact FSO Reluctant to discuss details = Contact FSO

Step 4 – Extending the offer

• Confirm the offer and

set the start date

• Offer wording:

“Contingent on

• btaining a security

clearance”

• Email acceptance is ok

Setting the Start Date

Currently Active or recently expired = few days Start Date for New or higher level clearance = 3 weeks

Step 5 – Turn over to FSO

Recruiter fills out Security Needed Form Candidate fills out background paperwork

• Secret = 7 years
• Top Secret = 10 years
• Provides proof of citizenship and

fingerprint card

What the FSO does

The FSO will:

• Handle all communication

with DSS and candidate

• Coordinate the Briefing

Docs and VAR’s (Visit Authorization Letter)

• May ask the branch for

assistance, but will coordinate the process

Employee clearance questions =

Contact the FSO

Terminations =

Contact the FSO

Branch Follow Up

For more information:

Highways: Volt Guide > Security Clearances Diana Buthmann dbuthmann@volt.com Alesa Trager atrager@volt.com Lori Morin lmorin@volt.com Sharie Winek swinek@volt.com