begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 04:03:19PM -0800: [snip] > How many smileys should I have placed in my post? One for the sarcasm :D, > one for rhetorical question :D, and one just in case the first two were > missed? :D
The FSF has deprecated smilies. Please use the appropriate XML tags. > BTW, I'd never had a clearance before my first government job, but that > didn't stop them from hiring me. Companies can hire people without > clearances for jobs that require one, they just have to make sure they have > an escort until their clearance is cleared ;). Anyway, there's many, many > qualified people that can get a clearance, but don't have one. Companies There's a fine line in here somewhere, because there are all sorts of legal issues about what you can or can't do when hiring and clearances are involved. Some of the questions have to be ... carefully phrased. IIRC, not hiring someone to a general position because they don't have a clearance counts as discrimination; there are ways around it, but the employer has to be /careful/. > would rather hire the less qualified people that have a clearance, that > hire the qualified ones and apply for a clearance. This is along the lines > of hiring people just out of school, for cheap, with no experience, just > because they have a degree (and because they are cheap). Employees are often seen as an expense, not a resource... -Stewart -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
