DoD Certifications for Intelligence and Security Professionals
https://icjobz.com/ICCERTS >> Did you know? There are DoD certifications for Intelligence and Security professionals? A certification to get you started: Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification (IFPC) … more available for Analysts and Security Professionals #BGJobs
Intelligence Careers and Master Degrees
QUESTION: Am considering a master degree in Security Studies or Intelligence. Will that open doors for me? Security Studies and Intelligence degrees not great for being dooropeners … UNLESS you meet someone with a sidedoor, or are studying within a highly technical field. Master degrees in Security Studies (non-technical) and Intelligence are good for expanding your career in some career fields that are policy-focused … #careers #ic #students #education #GEOINT #intelligence #BGJobs
Resumes for Defense Employers – Recommended Format
Resume Design: A style of resume that is highly popular among ‘defense contractors’ is the chronological. Why: Many contracts require hiring for Skill X and Experience Y within __ years of last five (5) years. A chronological resumes presents that information.
DoD Certifications for Intelligence and Security Professionals
Did you know that there are DoD certifications for Intelligence and Security professionals? These Defense Intelligence professional certification programs are directly managed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification (IFPC) … Stay tuned! Other programs are being developed. Intelligence Tradecraft The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency is the Functional Manager for
What is your Marketplace Salary Value?
How Much Am I Worth? … DoD and IC compensation and incomes are not tied to market shortages, nor always the going market rate for skills. With DoD and IC contractors: You are worth what you negotiate … and that negotiation can be a challenge because the defense contractor market can be like a three layer system: essential, mission critical, job cannot go unfilled for 24 hours.
Changing Jobs with Interim Clearance? OMG! Red Flags Alert!
https://www.dss.mil/ma/tw/dvd/vroc/eligibility/Thinking about changing jobs while your security clearance is in interim status?
Or has an employer submitted your paperwork for a clearance but things are still in process?
? Are you at risk of Loss of Jurisdiction?
Below is a video by a respected Security Clearance Legal Advisor Annie Stellato that plainly explains what Loss of Jurisdiction means, and how it works.
Video by Annie Stellato, founder of Stellato Consulting.
Annie Stellato has held various positions supporting national security over the last 14 years. She has an extensive background in security policy, regulations and processes as they apply to collateral security clearances, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access, and Special Access Programs (SAP) for both Government entities and Cleared Defense Contractors.
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Technically, per the Defense Security Service, a Loss of Jurisdiction means:
“When an individual has an eligibility of Loss of Jurisdiction, there is no eligibility, i.e. the individual should be debriefed and no access provided until an eligibility that supports access is entered by a CAF. Loss of Jurisdiction is usually posted when an individual has no affiliation with an Industry Facility.”
Translation: If the security clearance process gets interrupted then your existing clearance and level of access should be yanked and terminated.
Could another employer pick up the process? Yes. Maybe. Does not happen often.
Average Incomes by State – What is the Reality?
Income and Salaries / Good story but the numbers do not apply to a great many citizens in the states discussed. Numbers without context are misleading, and be grossly so. SALARIES and ‘averages’ have little relationship. What is the median income vice mean (average). That is closer to reality … but still is not
Law Enforcement and Intelligence = Career?
IALEIA – International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts
IALEIA is the largest professional organization in the world representing law enforcement analysts.
Purpose
The purpose of IALEIA is to advance high standards of professionalism in law enforcement intelligence analysis at the local, state/provincial, national, and international levels. Our aim is to enhance understanding of the role of intelligence analysis, encourage the recognition of intelligence analysis as a professional endeavor, develop international qualification and competency standards, reinforce professional concepts, devise training standards and curricula, furnish advisory and related services on intelligence analysis matters, conduct analytic-related research studies, and provide the ability to disseminate information regarding analytical techniques and methods.
IALEIA / Learn More + Connect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=56&v=X5j8uqLGMdE
Average Incomes by State – What is the Reality?
- Median: $71,535 (50% earn above/below this)
- Mean (Average): $94,229 … really?
My Point: Know your skillset and LOCAL labor market. Even then, know where you fit in the economy. In my county, people who work in the county earn less than 50% of those that work travel out of it to work. Go figure. Really. Go figure … there is a reason for that. Know you and your market.
CNBC STORY: Here’s how your income stacks up against your neighbor’s …
