I'm technical, not management. But being senior, I've reviewed countless resumes and conducted many interviews. I will back up your strategy as a winning one. It builds confidence in the candidate. Here, they know their stuff. Here, they have some stuff they won't lie about. It portrays you as honest, while allowing you to portray versatility.
If I'd suggest any strategy above what little you've spoken, I might suggest you mention interop. People that can bridge plural languages/operating environments really _do_ have value as jack-of-all traders. And my experience is that they aren't overwhelmed by frustration or barriers.
Most clearances do not involve a poly. That's a special ticket.
My understanding is that SCI...
Some tickets require special background checks, and maybe, as you noted, a poly. This is a big deal, because people often really don't want to take polys. Lots of people refuse, and thereby also refuse the ticket.
I know of plenty of folks who were rejected who aren't exactly particularly untrustworthy. Then again, I suppose that I don't know what all would be found in a full background investigation of them...
I've only ever seen one person rejected for a clearance. He was rejected because years before, he had worked on the Middle East Peace Council. So he was personally acquainted with a handful of terrorists.
Ironically, before 9/11 this fact didn't prevent him from holding clearances under a different organization that were so high, even the names of the clearances are classified.
At interview time, in the defense industry, only a few things can get you rejected:
*You are a foreign national.
*You have immediately family members who are foreign nationals in threat nations.
*You have close ties to foreign nationals in threat nations.
*You're too afraid to _apply_ for the clearance. This happens often.
*Your credit check reveals debts gone to collection and not paid.
*Criminal convictions.
*Recent drug use.
Most people don't have any problems with the above, so most people can get a clearance. Most people who do have problems fail on the last item, sometimes in the debt area.
The major delay is administrative lag, and finding an employer willing to work you through the process. Once you _do_ have a clearance, if it's high enough (i.e., the clearance name itself is classified), it's worth $10K+ a year in additional salary. While the additional salary is nice, you also have pretty good job security if you have the right "tickets" as they call these unnamed clearances in open conversation.
Hrm. Have you tried? My credit wasn't spectacular when I first got my clearance. Just having a bunch of debt doesn't mean "bad credit," although a shotgun of of recent and repeated 60-90 days might. If you haven't tried, and are worried that don't you might be rejected, you might try contacting the closest branch "Defense Investigative Services" and simply level with them. You might pull your own credit report, get the score, and just tell them that you are interested in a clearance and wondered if it would impact you. Or... you can have the same conversation with a Security Officer at a defense company. They exist to help people out, and they _want_ you to have a clearance.
One bit of advice: in getting a clearance, it is _always_ better to tell the truth than lie-and-get-caught.
I must have conducted a hundred interviews, and help hire two dozen programmers. Before the "dot bomb," it was not that unusual to see $55K right out of college. To my knowledge (which is a bit thin, I haven't hired _lately_), it still is in this neighborhood, if you have a C.S. or C.E. degree from a major institution with good grades.
One word of notice, though. You didn't mention _WHERE_. That's a very important missing piece, because the wages vary dramatically across the U.S. My area is San Diego. If you're willing to move, send me a resume at joekraska@san.rr.com and I will look at it.
The work is defense related, and will require a clearance. Things are very good at my company, however things in San Diego aren't so hot that the company is paying relo very often. But one never knows. We're adding staff left and right...
I've been informed that if I illegally tape someone in my state (where it is illegal to tape someone) that I might have a hard time getting the tape into Court in a civil matter. 'Course, this is venturing into areas in which I am not fully informed. Be that as it may, this doesn't seem to be restrictor to "state actors".
The problem with this assessment is that, if evidence is taken in an illegal manner, it's not admissable in court. In some cases, all *sub* evidence gathered as a result from illegal evidence can also be ruled out. Fruit of a poisoned tree and all that.
... Bottom line is, cable companies have a government-authorized monopoly, so maybe they need to recieve government-mandated "innovation."...
I'm surprised no one has jumped on this before. I have spoken with the public utilities commission directly about this subject. The above statement is not true.
Not really. Python "classes" behave like instances of objects, the way you'd expact out of a metaclassing language (which is what Python is, nothing like C++ or Java classes AT ALL).
I've never known a law enforcement agency that routinely wiped drives. --- All of any evidence pertaining thereto would be summarily ruled incompetent if they did.
Email addresses were invented by Ray Tomlinson at BBN Technologies (late 60's? early 70's?). BBN's phone number can be looked up in Cambridge, Massachusetts; I am quite sure Ray will be willing to lay claim to have invented the modern email address, with its @ sign and dots, way back about the time I was being born. I'm quite sure he'll be slightly wrathful that someone is taking claim to his invention.
As a former BBN'er, I was surrounded by various luminaries of the early internet (including Ray Tomlinson of "@" fame, as well as Tony Michell, who wired the first four arpanet computers together). You'll take comfort in knowing that they agree with you. Al Gore was instrumental in securing much interest and funding in the early internet.
And something isn't funny just because it's repeated a lot.
Well, really: it is actually pretty funny. It taps our funny bone on the subject of narcissistic politicians...
I have made no argument regarding the existence or non existence of some creator entity. All I have done is pointed out that First Cause is a fallacy -- it contains critical logical errors -- and so cannot be used as a rational reason for the belief in the creator mentioned. Have whatever faith you do or do not like, simply don't deceive oneself about the validity of the reasoning mentioned....that we can only rely on faith.
Faith, n. "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence."
Non sequitur. This little gem of a fallacy is an old one, and goes by the name of "First Cause". First Cause contains well-understood logical errors, which, had you really been thinking about it critically, you would be more than familiar with by now. Can you explain to me why you are not?
I can. You have assumed that your "there must be a prime mover" argument must be logically sound, and therefore you've expended no energy looking for reasons why it might not be. Well, it's not. Physician, heal thyself.
You see the scientific method isn't fundamentally incompatible with faith
One critical part of science is skepticism, and skepticism is, indeed, utterly incompatible with faith. Definitionally, they are polar opposites.
Ah, a funny. I'll tell you, though, I know a guy who went to Gallaudet University for the Deaf. You've never heard so much music, played so loud. Turns out, the Deaf *do* like music. They turn it up so high they can *feel* it.
Frightening, eh? This guy was hearing, so it was kind of a nightmare.:)
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Which would have been followed by a lawsuit for unfair dismissal.
Countersuits can be a real humdinger.
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"What's that", he asked, pointing to the symbol for square root.
Ugh. That should have been followed up with "you're fired".
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I'm technical, not management. But being senior, I've reviewed countless resumes and conducted many interviews. I will back up your strategy as a winning one. It builds confidence in the candidate. Here, they know their stuff. Here, they have some stuff they won't lie about. It portrays you as honest, while allowing you to portray versatility.
:-)
If I'd suggest any strategy above what little you've spoken, I might suggest you mention interop. People that can bridge plural languages/operating environments really _do_ have value as jack-of-all traders. And my experience is that they aren't overwhelmed by frustration or barriers.
Best of luck to you.
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p.s. my group is hiring in San Diego.
joekraska@san.rr.com
You can also fail the polygraph.
Most clearances do not involve a poly. That's a special ticket.
My understanding is that SCI...
Some tickets require special background checks, and maybe, as you noted, a poly. This is a big deal, because people often really don't want to take polys. Lots of people refuse, and thereby also refuse the ticket.
C//
I know of plenty of folks who were rejected who aren't exactly particularly untrustworthy. Then again, I suppose that I don't know what all would be found in a full background investigation of them...
I've only ever seen one person rejected for a clearance. He was rejected because years before, he had worked on the Middle East Peace Council. So he was personally acquainted with a handful of terrorists.
Ironically, before 9/11 this fact didn't prevent him from holding clearances under a different organization that were so high, even the names of the clearances are classified.
At interview time, in the defense industry, only a few things can get you rejected:
*You are a foreign national.
*You have immediately family members who are foreign nationals in threat nations.
*You have close ties to foreign nationals in threat nations.
*You're too afraid to _apply_ for the clearance. This happens often.
*Your credit check reveals debts gone to collection and not paid.
*Criminal convictions.
*Recent drug use.
Most people don't have any problems with the above, so most people can get a clearance. Most people who do have problems fail on the last item, sometimes in the debt area.
The major delay is administrative lag, and finding an employer willing to work you through the process. Once you _do_ have a clearance, if it's high enough (i.e., the clearance name itself is classified), it's worth $10K+ a year in additional salary. While the additional salary is nice, you also have pretty good job security if you have the right "tickets" as they call these unnamed clearances in open conversation.
C//
A security clearance is *VERY* hard to get...
Speaking from someone who's worked in the the defense industry for 10 years on some prety serious shit: none of this is particularly accurate.
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Hrm. Have you tried? My credit wasn't spectacular when I first got my clearance. Just having a bunch of debt doesn't mean "bad credit," although a shotgun of of recent and repeated 60-90 days might. If you haven't tried, and are worried that don't you might be rejected, you might try contacting the closest branch "Defense Investigative Services" and simply level with them. You might pull your own credit report, get the score, and just tell them that you are interested in a clearance and wondered if it would impact you. Or... you can have the same conversation with a Security Officer at a defense company. They exist to help people out, and they _want_ you to have a clearance.
One bit of advice: in getting a clearance, it is _always_ better to tell the truth than lie-and-get-caught.
C//
I must have conducted a hundred interviews, and help hire two dozen programmers. Before the "dot bomb," it was not that unusual to see $55K right out of college. To my knowledge (which is a bit thin, I haven't hired _lately_), it still is in this neighborhood, if you have a C.S. or C.E. degree from a major institution with good grades.
One word of notice, though. You didn't mention _WHERE_. That's a very important missing piece, because the wages vary dramatically across the U.S. My area is San Diego. If you're willing to move, send me a resume at joekraska@san.rr.com and I will look at it.
The work is defense related, and will require a clearance. Things are very good at my company, however things in San Diego aren't so hot that the company is paying relo very often. But one never knows. We're adding staff left and right...
C//
I've been informed that if I illegally tape someone in my state (where it is illegal to tape someone) that I might have a hard time getting the tape into Court in a civil matter. 'Course, this is venturing into areas in which I am not fully informed. Be that as it may, this doesn't seem to be restrictor to "state actors".
Explain.
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The problem with this assessment is that, if evidence is taken in an illegal manner, it's not admissable in court. In some cases, all *sub* evidence gathered as a result from illegal evidence can also be ruled out. Fruit of a poisoned tree and all that.
C//
Believe it or not, they have recovery software that survives "wiping the hard drive".
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... Bottom line is, cable companies have a government-authorized monopoly, so maybe they need to recieve government-mandated "innovation."...
I'm surprised no one has jumped on this before. I have spoken with the public utilities commission directly about this subject. The above statement is not true.
C//
python is class based,...
Not really. Python "classes" behave like instances of objects, the way you'd expact out of a metaclassing language (which is what Python is, nothing like C++ or Java classes AT ALL).
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Man, you had me going there for a minute, until...
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Your search - "Sex-crazed underage lesbians" - did not match any documents.
Hey that was pretty funny.
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Yes.
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Or get immersed by a three mile high title wave.
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I've never known a law enforcement agency that routinely wiped drives.
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All of any evidence pertaining thereto would be summarily ruled incompetent if they did.
C//
Email addresses were invented by Ray Tomlinson at BBN Technologies (late 60's? early 70's?). BBN's phone number can be looked up in Cambridge, Massachusetts; I am quite sure Ray will be willing to lay claim to have invented the modern email address, with its @ sign and dots, way back about the time I was being born. I'm quite sure he'll be slightly wrathful that someone is taking claim to his invention.
C//
As a former BBN'er, I was surrounded by various luminaries of the early internet (including Ray Tomlinson of "@" fame, as well as Tony Michell, who wired the first four arpanet computers together). You'll take comfort in knowing that they agree with you. Al Gore was instrumental in securing much interest and funding in the early internet.
And something isn't funny just because it's repeated a lot.
Well, really: it is actually pretty funny. It taps our funny bone on the subject of narcissistic politicians...
C//
They see things as proof that God exists that...
...that we can only rely on faith.
I have made no argument regarding the existence or non existence of some creator entity. All I have done is pointed out that First Cause is a fallacy -- it contains critical logical errors -- and so cannot be used as a rational reason for the belief in the creator mentioned. Have whatever faith you do or do not like, simply don't deceive oneself about the validity of the reasoning mentioned.
Faith, n. "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence."
C//
For motion to exist there must be a prime mover.
Non sequitur. This little gem of a fallacy is an old one, and goes by the name of "First Cause". First Cause contains well-understood logical errors, which, had you really been thinking about it critically, you would be more than familiar with by now. Can you explain to me why you are not?
I can. You have assumed that your "there must be a prime mover" argument must be logically sound, and therefore you've expended no energy looking for reasons why it might not be. Well, it's not. Physician, heal thyself.
You see the scientific method isn't fundamentally incompatible with faith
One critical part of science is skepticism, and skepticism is, indeed, utterly incompatible with faith. Definitionally, they are polar opposites.
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... honestly, the Nigerians earned every penny. More power to them.
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I work for the worlds largest company...
Indian Railroad employees 11 *million* employees.
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Ah, a funny. I'll tell you, though, I know a guy who went to Gallaudet University for the Deaf. You've never heard so much music, played so loud. Turns out, the Deaf *do* like music. They turn it up so high they can *feel* it.
:)
Frightening, eh? This guy was hearing, so it was kind of a nightmare.
C//