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Top Secret Town
Security billboard in Oak Ridge, 1960 A sleepy small town where everyone knows your name nestled among 75,000 acres of farmland and forest. White picket fences encircle perfect little houses, and...
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Security Clearance Reciprocity
At a recent briefing by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) at the Government Technology & Services...
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How to Use LinkedIn for Job Search Without Tipping Off Your Current Employer
Many cleared professionals overlook LinkedIn as a career development and business networking tool, only using the site when they need a job. This presents a challenge when you ultimately do need a...
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Recruiters, Be All That You Can Be
At the most recent recruitDC, I had the privilege to share with the recruiting community tips on how to incorporate veteran hiring into a recruiter’s mindset. The poignant beginning of this...
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I’m Seeking an Executive Position as I Transition Out of Civil Service. Why...
I teach classes on career search and social media for transitioning government and military personnel. This question and my response below came from a senior professional at a recent class. Many of the...
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Increasing Your LinkedIn Connections
Many folks build their LinkedIn profile, add some of their friends, then call it a day. Not a good strategy for building a network. Your online network is built and nurtured through active...
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2012 Best Recruiters Announced
At each Cleared Job Fair job seekers vote for the company or companies that provide the best recruiting experience. The top three companies are recognized as Best Recruiters. This year marks the fifth...
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2012 Best Recruiter Celebration and Recognition for Recruiting Leadership
The Best Recruiter Celebration honors the recruiters providing the best recruiting experience to security cleared job seekers at Cleared Job Fairs. Over 100 recruiters were recognized this year at a...
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LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements
Do you need to make some sense of LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements? Recently LinkedIn made several changes to profiles and profile features. Every job search should use multiple resources such as...
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The Uniform
It sounded like an oxymoron – Women in Homeland Security Fashion Show. But this very powerful event, which brought together women from all levels of their careers from both industry and agency, showed...
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The Biggest Benefit of Job Boards to Employers
There is a big benefit to a company’s regular presence on job boards: branding. Before I go any further, let me suggest a working definition for branding in recruitment: the reputation/image/’slot’ the...
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Fear is the Mind Killer
Fear seems to be something that we have become very comfortable with. The activity of worrying about the unknown occupies a fair amount of our time from how will we handle a possible budget action...
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You Don’t Have to Connect with Everyone
A challenge for many who want to move onto social media, especially to support their job search, is how to “connect” or “link” or “friend” some requests, but not all requests. If you’re a cleared job...
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Recruiters, What You Lose When Budgets Are Cut
Everyone’s budget is being cut. We all have to be more creative with less. But is cutting resources the best option for long term recruiting and employer branding strategy? While there is significant...
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AFCEA CMD 2013 Race for Excellence 5K
John Nixon and Smurf. Or Troll. It was a glorious sunny morning for the the 6th annual 2013 Race for Excellence 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run. The eventbenefits AFCEA’s Central Maryland Scholarship Fund, which...
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Fake LinkedIn Profiles
Much has been written about fake LinkedIn profiles. There are folks who use LinkedIn to build marketing or contact lists and even worse, to gather information and intel on folks for nefarious reasons....
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Women in Intelligence Group Speaker Series
Debora Plunkett The Women in Intelligence Group held their biannual speaker series on April 30, 2013. Titled Paradigm Shift: Leadership Strategies for Surviving and Thriving in Times of Fundamental...
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The Best Recruiter Program 2013
The Candidate Experience is being recognized as an integral part of a talent acquisition strategy. More than 5 years ago ClearedJobs.Net launched the Best Recruiter Program which has become an key...
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#SHRM13 Recap of the Recaps
As with any conference to get the download but not attend you follow the tweetstream- all of the posts or Tweets from conference attendees tagged #SHRM13. While you will wade through the sponsor and...
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Media and the Intelligence Community, AFCEA EPIC Series
Though the panel and topic were picked months ago, the AFCEA Emerging Professionals in the Intelligence Community (EPIC) session on the “Media and the Intelligence Community” was timely. The event was...
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