In category: cleared jobs
Foreign Travel Briefings: When They Are Required Before a Trip
When must you receive a defensive foreign travel briefing? Before a covered trip when your agency head or designee requires one. DCSA gives cleared employees a broad before-travel rule, while its cleared-contractor guidance ties the briefing to specified destinations and addition… more
Is There a Clearance Above Top Secret? Decoding Misleading Job Language
Nothing is above Top Secret in the national-security classification hierarchy. Executive Order 13526 establishes Top Secret as the highest of three classification levels. SCI compartments, special access programs, dissemination controls, and program read-ins can restrict access f… more
What GS-13 Means: Responsibility, Qualifications, and Pay Setting
What does GS-13 mean? It is a federal General Schedule grade assigned to work based on difficulty, responsibility, and required qualifications. It is not one salary, occupation, management rank, or universal seniority label. The announcement tells you what GS-13 means for that pa… more
Foreign Contact Questions on the SF-86: Mapping People to the Right Sections
The SF-86 foreign contacts question is not the only place a foreign-connected person may matter. The form routes spouses and cohabitants to Section 17, specified relatives to Section 18, and other qualifying foreign contacts to Section 19. Separate foreign-activity questions can … more
How to Successfully Transition Out of the Military: A 12-Month Career Plan
How to successfully transition out of the military begins with sequence, not a stack of programs. Federal law directs preseparation counseling to begin no later than 365 days before separation or retirement and as soon as possible within the 24 months before an anticipated retire… more