Bay Systems Consulting, headquartered in Palo Alto, is primarily hiring cleared IT professionals for contracts which include NASA sites across the country. Most of their positions require a Secret security clearance and many are hybrid remote. Pro job seeker tip: No means no right now, not forever.

“Just because someone says no, it means no right now. So you’ve got to do your due diligence and follow up. You never know, they might have another open position in a month, in three months. And you're just checking in.”

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SIXGEN is focused on cyber security for the intel community in the Fort Meade and Dulles corridors. As Shawn Devroude, EVP of Cyber shares, SIXGEN has “spicy” or tip-of-the-spear work opportunities that very few cleared professionals get to experience. Nearly 90% of their employees are veterans, and the company prides itself on an employee-first focus.

“Because SIXGEN is filled with patriots, everybody wants to do their part to make the nation more secure, to fight against its adversaries. But they want to do so doing what we call ‘spicy work’. That's what we know motivates our workforce. They want to know they're gonna do something that very few folks get to do. And they know that spicy work is going to make an extreme impact when successfully implemented to protect our nation and its allies against the adversary.”

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“The best part of recruiting is being an advocate for candidates.” A powerful statement from Meg Pexa, the Principal Cyber and Robotics Recruiter for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Sandia is about more than just nuclear non-proliferation, and has a very accepting organizational culture. Plus a hot resume tip about considering the first person who sees your cleared resume.

“He just wanted a tiny bit more money. So he and I worked together and came up with a game plan: Alright, tell me why you are the most badass person on the planet that does this position. And I'm gonna make sure that the company understands that too. I was able to write up this beautiful paragraph, essentially explaining why this guy was so amazing, and sell it to comp.”

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This special Bonus Episode of our podcast gives you our top 10 list of things you must do to excel in an interview. 

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SOSi is a mid-size government contractor with four business units and robust OCONUS cleared opportunities, shares Kristen DeJohn, Director of Talent Acquisition. There really is a person named Sosi, and she founded this still family-owned company in 1989. SOSi’s cleared hiring needs are diverse and go well beyond the language-related positions where they began and still thrive today.

“Remember that you're interviewing the company as well. This is a job that you're seeking, for whatever your reasons are. Make sure that you're prepared with questions that are important to you to learn more about the environment, about the culture, about the people on the program. And I always say interviewing is a lot like dating. Don't settle! So make sure that you're coming prepared with what's important to you. And if you can have that open dialogue and ask those questions, it makes a big difference.”

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TekMasters has a focus on longer-term stable programs in the intelligence community in Northern Virginia and Maryland, shares John McLaine, Director of the Program Office. Every prospective employee meets with the program team and the agency team before they interview.

“We look for very stable programs. We don't go for the temporary ones or the bridge contracts. All of the programs that we have, that we align ourselves with, we want to make sure that if we place someone they have a good stable home. We want to take that worry away from them so they can focus on the mission at hand instead of worrying, “Where am I gonna go next?”

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LLNL hiring needs, while focused on scientists and engineers, are quite broad as the Lab is a self-contained city with nearly 9k employees. Frank Trigueros, Talent Acquisition Group Leader, talks why cleared professionals should never burn bridges, SkillBridge opportunities, internships, and more.

“You can have a multi-dimensional career at the laboratory. You may come in and start doing one thing, then after a couple of years there could be another project that could be something completely different, where you're still leveraging maybe a component of your skills. Or you've learned things and drawn knowledge through your time at the lab that you can pivot and leverage it in another area. That's what's great. If you really want to stay with us long term, your path can take a lot of different areas.”

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If you’re looking for a different type of cleared professional experience, yet still want to support the mission, this could be it. With over 1,600 employees, the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State is probably bigger than you realize, and their needs are broad-based and extend beyond Happy Valley. Learn from Deputy Director Meghan Flannery Hayes how you might fit in.

“It's very collaborative. It's about a lot of teams -- small teams -- and then building new and different teams. You're not always on the same team. But we do a lot of cross collaboration across our four offices, because we find that innovation happens at those interfaces. When you put a material scientist in the same room as someone who specializes in antennas, signals processing, suddenly you're printing antennas with graphene on the sides of things, right? Suddenly, you're doing new kinds of interesting things. And really then solving problems and solving gaps.”

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Did you know your security clearance is already being Continuously Vetted by DCSA? Continuous Vetting’s purpose is to help clearance holders mitigate small issues before they become big problems – not to “gotcha,” and kick you out. Ryan Dennis, the Deputy Assistant Director of Continuous Vetting shares the information you need to know to better understand the program and its impact on your security clearance.

“Security is always too much. Until it's not enough. I understand the security clearance process is not fun, but it's important. And if we think about it in context of what happened at the Washington Navy Yard and other events, which have impacted people, property, information and missions, self-reporting and continuous vetting provide the best opportunity for early intervention.”

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As an ambassador for the ManTech brand, Senior Technical Recruiter Martha Schneegans is focused on providing value for both parties, and she takes a long-term view of her relationship with you. Service members, Martha is ready to talk to you now. “Let’s start talking early,” well ahead of your terminal leave date. Listen for the best example we’ve heard about why your cleared resume should mirror the terminology you find on the job posting.

“Listen, you have to write your resume to make sure that it’s aligned with the job posting. The language on the job description is the same language you have to use. We're not going to read your mind. We're not going to assume, “He did that, therefore he knows how to do A, B, and C.” If the job description has the words, tomato, ballerina, and cake decorator, make sure you include those on your resume.”

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