01-06-2008, 11:56 PM
Apoc Wrote:Evan Wrote:how is it a whole 'nuther ballgame when you are talking specifically about the DC area and thats a significant portion of the jobs available?
I'd argue your use of significant and ask that you support it with some numbers. I would be surprised if more than 10% of civilian, corporate jobs require clearance.
Most of us here don't have one... I don't think.
heh, well clearly the nature of the work means that there are no published numbers for cleared workers. And of course I could ask for the same numbers about uncleared positions.
Given that every state department employee and contractor must have a clearance (30k+ employees), every employee and contractor for all the intel agencies (DNI, DIA, CIA, FBI, DHS, NSA, NRO...and it goes on and on) must have a very high level security clearance, significant cleared positions at other agencies such as DoJ, and given that this area revolves around the government and these agencies, and Id say thats a pretty concrete argument for use of the word significant