On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jason Bertoch <jason@i6ix.com> wrote:
On 2/27/2012 7:53 PM, William Herrin wrote:
I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly limited)
programming skills.
I wish. For the past three months I've been trying to find a network engineer with a deep TCP/IP protocol understanding, network security expertise, some Linux experience, minor programming skill with sockets and a TS/SCI clearance.
Is clearance the problem, or the ability to obtain clearance due to something in their background? If your work requires it, you should have some recourse for applicants to obtain the required clearance, no?
My understanding is that while primary and subcontractor companies can put people in the sponsoring organization's clearance granting queue, it takes so long to get someone through the queue that for high-level positions they essentially make having the clearance already a prerequisite. -- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com