Security clearance jobs
01-25-2013 | 08:14 AM
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Security clearance jobs
I am applying to a bunch of places, and some applications ask if you have any security clearances. As a regional airline pilot currently, do I have any? Like a DOT clearance? It asks if you do and the name of the clearance. Thanks!
01-25-2013 | 08:21 AM
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There's no security clearance required to be a regional airline pilot.
FYI, most jobs that require a clearance will only be filled by people who already have one. It's expensive and time consuming to do a new clearance, and the employer has to pay for it. They also typically can only obtain clearances for actual employees, so they have to hire you first and then pay you to sit around or do something else for many months while the clearance processes. Point being, I wouldn't waste any money on application fees for those jobs unless you have an inside connection telling you something else..
01-29-2013 | 01:34 AM
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As stated already, you probably don't have one. You would remember the massive pain of filling out all the paperwork required to get one.
01-29-2013 | 06:15 AM
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As a regional airline pilot currently, do I have any? Like a DOT clearance? It asks if you do and the name of the clearance.
Security clearances come in levels and types, and even a basic Secret clearance requires considerable paperwork. Moving up to a Top Secret clearance involves a process that can take several months under the best circumstances, and up to a year. Federal investigators will interview you (and your family/spouse), and most aspects of your life will be closely examined. It's an expensive process, and one which an employer must sponsor. Only employers authorized to seek a security clearance can do that, so unless you've worked for a defense contractor or for a contractor (or the military) and have been involved in an operation which requires a particular level of clearance, then you won't have been through the process.
Your airline experience requires a background check, which is minimal.
01-29-2013 | 07:02 AM
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I doubt it, you don't need a clearance to carry classified material or equipment as long as it's sealed up. If the mission is so sensitive that the landing location itself is classified then they are just going to use military (or OGA) birds.
01-29-2013 | 08:16 AM
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A military hardware firm put me through the process for a Top Secret desk job and by they had me a level where I could enter the building where the airplane was kept at an air base, it was 8 months later. I had long since found another nice job, so I pulled out. In that time I also talked to other engineers who had done those jobs and the picture I got was that a Secret or TS is not worth having from a gain standpoint. They are for military people and those civilians who want to work at military bases.
01-30-2013 | 02:21 AM
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I think for a TOP Ssecret clearance FBI agents will interview every current, past employer, every landlady you every had and every past girlfriend.
Nowadays it wouldn't surprise if they check all your credit card transactions and read all your emails.
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