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Quarex posted:* Why do most, but not all, National Guard positions require membership in the National Guard? What are they so worried about?!?! Those are Miltech positions, where the person works as a civilian in a role typically occupied military personnel in an active duty unit (admin/S1, supply/S4, maintenance/S4 etc.) and then drills in that same position as member of the unit on drill weekends. The idea behind it is continuity of responsibility and forcing the civilians to understand the impact they have on unit operations by making them actually participate as a military member on a part time basis.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 12:41 |
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| # ? May 23, 2013 09:23 |
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Quarex posted:Late night thoughts for the day: 1. Yes. Apply anyway. Also check out the defense contractor thread (I think it's in GIP?) as it may give you an idea about things you could potentially study. 2. Either what psydude said, or they are AGR (basically "active" guard, full time NG positions) billeted positions. NG has all sorts of weird quirks by virtue of being both state and federal that you won't see in the reserves.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 13:45 |
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Unrelated: My favorite thing about the rejection letters from USAJobs is that I can never tell which job they are for, so it is like never being 100% disappointed!CherryCola posted:1) Yes. Many people get hired straight out of college. An MA helps. Just apply for everything and be able to get and maintain a clearance. Diplomaticus posted:1. Yes. Apply anyway. Also check out the defense contractor thread (I think it's in GIP?) as it may give you an idea about things you could potentially study.  (; more like  )Every time I find an intelligence job it says you need experience in SIGINT CYBINT PARTYTIMEINT and have a year spent analyzing geospatial intelligence data, but I would hardly be surprised if I had the wrong job criteria in my saved searches. I gotta check out that contractor thread to learn more! psydude posted:Those are Miltech positions, where the person works as a civilian in a role typically occupied military personnel in an active duty unit (admin/S1, supply/S4, maintenance/S4 etc.) and then drills in that same position as member of the unit on drill weekends. The idea behind it is continuity of responsibility and forcing the civilians to understand the impact they have on unit operations by making them actually participate as a military member on a part time basis. Diplomaticus posted:2. Either what psydude said, or they are AGR (basically "active" guard, full time NG positions) billeted positions. NG has all sorts of weird quirks by virtue of being both state and federal that you won't see in the reserves. Those jobs actually sound extra-interesting because of the whole "military training" aspect. Not, like, interesting for me to join, but interesting like if I were the sort of person who would do that then it would be an added appeal.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 23:48 |
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Quarex posted:
You most likely won't get hired as an intelligence contractor without an active security clearance. If you want in, I wouldn't bother with USAJobs, go straight to the agency websites and apply there. Most of them have entry-level positions requiring no experience, although they do look for certain things like languages. But yeah, there are some ultra-specific job postings out there where there really can't be that many qualified applicants.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 23:58 |
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