No DV, refused perm application

[NotAllThere]

I contacted the HR department of the met police when it was taking an age for my clearance to come through. Didn't get through to the director, but spoke to her secretary. A day later my clearance came through. Funny that.

If the senior management of LargeItCo are doing their job properly, then they'll be quite sensitive to any indication that they could get caught not acting according to the rules. I can understand the reluctance to raise the issue yourself, but there's no reason why, .e.g the PCG couldn't raise it on your behalf. Even if your not a member.

[SuperZ]

That's the problem, I just told the misses what I planned to do and she hit the roof.

Sometimes you have to expect to be tulip on from a great height, winding up the HR department of the largest IT employer in the world may be a bad move long term.

Depends what you stand for. Personally, I'd go for it even if it lands me in the sh** with one organisation. Problem these days too many people end up stepping into line, like good little sheep. Keep quiet on on the hope you may one day be employed by the big corp?

Besides, you are trying to help them keep to the rules, what they should already know anyway. They may even wish they could thank you for it

[gingerjedi]

Depends what you stand for. Personally, I'd go for it even if it lands me in the sh** with one organisation. Problem these days too many people end up stepping into line, like good little sheep. Keep quiet on on the hope you may one day be employed by the big corp?

Besides, you are trying to help them keep to the rules, what they should already know anyway. They may even wish they could thank you for it

Sadly I do most of my work in defence which they are heavily involved with, but... if anyone hears of a broadsheet doing a hatchet job on HP I'd be willing to hand over some evidence for a fee.

[SueEllen]

Just saw this thread.

It's actually worth contacting HP to inform them very politely what the agency is up to.

It's very likely they don't know what's going on for various reasons including the agent misinterpreting what the HR bod said, or the HR bod not understanding the rules. Due to the recession don't be surprised if the HR bod moved from an agency to HR as there was someone I use to know who did that in the last recession. (They didn't last long.)

I was contacted a few months ago by one agent about a permanent role that required security clearance. He obviously knew nothing as I explained to him that for permanent roles you get the candidate then conduct brief checks to see if they are likely to get clearance and then you get them to interview. He sounded really unsure of himself and then insisted his client said they must have security clearance already.

Then a week later a different agency contacted me about the same company. And there was no problem with it........