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I’ve Got An Interview With A Recruiter Tomorrow for an Intel Job—Wish Me Luck!

Or not as you see fit, lol 😂

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a career related job in regards to something to do with intelligence related work—either for the government or a private think tank—and I saw an ad recruiting people to become intelligence officers for the Army. I applied yesterday, a recruiter gave me a call this morning, and I’m going in for an in person interview tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully this works out. I’m somewhat nervous about the prospect of boot camp—I was never the greatest at picking things up super fast/on the first go—but if it doesn’t work out then well, hell, at least I will have tried my best. I’m thinking Reserves(assuming I make it through boot camp) rather than active duty.

So, as I said, wish me luck! Or not lol. I’m pretty excited, but also nervous.
 
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Tigerace117 said:
Or not as you see fit, lol 😂

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a career related job in regards to something to do with intelligence related work—either for the government or a private think tank—and I saw an ad recruiting people to become intelligence officers for the Army. I applied yesterday, a recruiter gave me a call this morning, and I’m going in for an in person interview tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully this works out. I’m somewhat nervous about the prospect of boot camp—I was never the greatest at picking things up super fast/on the first go—but if it doesn’t work out then well, hell, at least I will have tried my best. I’m thinking Reserves(assuming I make it through boot camp) rather than active duty.

So, as I said, wish me luck! Or not lol. I’m pretty excited, but also nervous.
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Although there has been limited context to the employer, intelligence work should not require a commitment to the military (e.g. S2 in the Army). Are you planning to target the Department of Defense either through military service or sponsorship?
 
jotathought said:
Although there has been limited context to the employer, intelligence work should not require a commitment to the military (e.g. S2 in the Army). Are you planning to target the Department of Defense either through military service or sponsorship?
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Honestly I don’t know a whole lot of concrete details yet, I just know that intelligence work is the field I want to do career wise, and a lot of the other jobs I saw required previous experience which I don’t have yet.
 
Nervous is normal in human beings! Sure you will do just fine.
Gain some experience and then you will have a wide variety of agencies to apply at.

NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, DIA, Dept of State INR, FBI, DEA to name a few.

Good Luck!
 
Tigerace117 said:
Or not as you see fit, lol 😂

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a career related job in regards to something to do with intelligence related work—either for the government or a private think tank—and I saw an ad recruiting people to become intelligence officers for the Army. I applied yesterday, a recruiter gave me a call this morning, and I’m going in for an in person interview tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully this works out. I’m somewhat nervous about the prospect of boot camp—I was never the greatest at picking things up super fast/on the first go—but if it doesn’t work out then well, hell, at least I will have tried my best. I’m thinking Reserves(assuming I make it through boot camp) rather than active duty.

So, as I said, wish me luck! Or not lol. I’m pretty excited, but also nervous.
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I've interviewed with State a few times and have been hired in the past, if you need any tips, PM me. (I'm also an HR guy who was the interviewer thousands of times)
 
Tigerace117 said:
Or not as you see fit, lol 😂

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a career related job in regards to something to do with intelligence related work—either for the government or a private think tank—and I saw an ad recruiting people to become intelligence officers for the Army. I applied yesterday, a recruiter gave me a call this morning, and I’m going in for an in person interview tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully this works out. I’m somewhat nervous about the prospect of boot camp—I was never the greatest at picking things up super fast/on the first go—but if it doesn’t work out then well, hell, at least I will have tried my best. I’m thinking Reserves(assuming I make it through boot camp) rather than active duty.

So, as I said, wish me luck! Or not lol. I’m pretty excited, but also nervous.
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Boot camp should help with picking things up...and putting them down...and picking them up again...

Good luck and hang tough!
 
Common Sense 1 said:
Nervous is normal in human beings! Sure you will do just fine.
Gain some experience and then you will have a wide variety of agencies to apply at.

NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, DIA, Dept of State INR, FBI, DEA to name a few.

Good Luck!
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Thank you!
 
If you do get hired do not in any way tell any false hoods on your background check, don't even bend the truth. If you are up for a clearance, they will probe everything about you, talking to neighbors, friends, former bosses, etc. They will go through your life and your finances with a fine toothed comb. Better to be honest up front. My clearances were extensive, but nothing like the ones that friends of mine have gone through. One friend does a lot of military contract work with his company (a big machining factory). One day he got a call and they said "congratulations, your 30 day surveillance is over", he had NO idea he was surveilled...LOL
 
Common Sense 1 said:
Nervous is normal in human beings! Sure you will do just fine.
Gain some experience and then you will have a wide variety of agencies to apply at.

NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, DIA, Dept of State INR, FBI, DEA to name a few.

Good Luck!
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Thank you!
 
beefheart said:
If you do get hired do not in any way tell any false hoods on your background check, don't even bend the truth. If you are up for a clearance, they will probe everything about you, talking to neighbors, friends, former bosses, etc. They will go through your life and your finances with a fine toothed comb. Better to be honest up front. My clearances were extensive, but nothing like the ones that friends of mine have gone through. One friend does a lot of military contract work with his company (a big machining factory). One day he got a call and they said "congratulations, your 30 day surveillance is over", he had NO idea he was surveilled...LOL
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That makes sense. The only thing I can think of that I have that they might take issue with is stomach problems I’ve been for a few years now that are stress related as far as the drs can tell, I’ve been taking stress medicine for it and it helps but it hasn’t totally eliminated the issue.
 
Be confident. You know what you want. Do you know why? An interviewer is looking for someone driven by purpose. A question that always seems to hang people up, especially younger people, is why you want this job. Don't be afraid to pause before answering a question. No "uuummmm", or extensive use of "like".
 
Tigerace117 said:
That makes sense. The only thing I can think of that I have that they might take issue with is stomach problems I’ve been for a few years now that are stress related as far as the drs can tell, I’ve been taking stress medicine for it and it helps but it hasn’t totally eliminated the issue.
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They usually do a full physical, nothing too huge.
 
beefheart said:
They usually do a full physical, nothing too huge.
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The recruiter said that he’d being going over what the job entailed more throughly in the in person interview and having me take a sample ASVAB, but I didn’t have to bring any documents or anything.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Or not as you see fit, lol 😂

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a career related job in regards to something to do with intelligence related work—either for the government or a private think tank—and I saw an ad recruiting people to become intelligence officers for the Army. I applied yesterday, a recruiter gave me a call this morning, and I’m going in for an in person interview tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully this works out. I’m somewhat nervous about the prospect of boot camp—I was never the greatest at picking things up super fast/on the first go—but if it doesn’t work out then well, hell, at least I will have tried my best. I’m thinking Reserves(assuming I make it through boot camp) rather than active duty.

So, as I said, wish me luck! Or not lol. I’m pretty excited, but also nervous.
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"Tigerace117, James Tigerace117".
 
Tigerace117 said:
Or not as you see fit, lol 😂

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a career related job in regards to something to do with intelligence related work—either for the government or a private think tank—and I saw an ad recruiting people to become intelligence officers for the Army.
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Was this a television commercial, by any chance?

Are you a college graduate?

What are your current qualifications?


Tigerace117 said:
I’m somewhat nervous about the prospect of boot camp—I was never the greatest at picking things up super fast/on the first go—but if it doesn’t work out then well, hell, at least I will have tried my best. I’m thinking Reserves(assuming I make it through boot camp) rather than active duty.
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If you're going to boot camp, that means you're enlisting. You'll probably have to choose between active duty and the reserves before leaving for boot camp. Bear one thing in mind, though. If "it doesn't work out", you're still going to have to satisfy a commitment to the Army. They're not just going to send you home if you don't get into the intel biz.

I haven't seen a recruiting commercial in years, but the Air Force always uses pilots and the Navy always seems to use SEAL's. These are the sexy jobs that everyone wants. The reality is that only a spare few get them. Allow for the possibility that the Army is doing something similar...
 
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