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Resume Privacy for Cleared Professionals: Redacting Programs, Clients, and Locations
A secure resume for cleared work must be completely unclassified, specific enough to prove your qualifications, and stripped of personal data that an employer does not need at the application stage. The goal is not to make your experience mysterious. It is to replace protected de… more
Outside Employment for Clearance Holders: Approval, Reporting, and Conflicts
Outside employment and security clearances can put one side job through several separate reviews. Reporting the work to your security office does not necessarily satisfy your employer's moonlighting policy or a federal ethics approval rule. Before you accept a client, gig, board … more
Contingent Offers on an Unawarded Contract: Building a Cleared Bench Without Overpromising
One sentence in the NISPOM disposes of this headline. "Requests for determinations of eligibility for access to classified information will not be used to establish a cache of cleared employees." That is 32 CFR 117.10(a)(5), CFR edition revised as of July 1, 2025. You cannot spon… more
IAT, IAM, IASAE and the DCWF Role Codes: Which Category Your Cleared Job Falls Into
The clause that put "IAT Level II" into a generation of cleared job descriptions is dated JAN 2008 and points at DoD 8570.01-M, a manual the Department cancelled on February 15, 2023. It is still printed in the codified DFARS, and since February 1, 2026 contracting officers have … more
Failing a Polygraph and Keeping Your Job: What Actually Happens Next
In fiscal year 2002, Department of Defense examiners ran 8,512 counterintelligence-scope screening polygraphs. Of those, 267 produced a significant response, volunteered substantive information, or both. When DoD wrote the report, none of the 267 had been denied access or had acc… more