DV clearance benefits?

[pastalista]

Which considering what DV clearance potentially gives access to is perfectly understandable and desirable.

I agree, DV has to be a good probing. I have been through it and have acted as referees for two other candidates who have been through it as well.

Questions ranged from my taste in pornography (and did my wife know that I looked at it), to drinking and drug use, visits to foreign countries and so on.

They majored on the financial side though. Really probing questions about why I had used certain credit cards to pay for things and why I hadn't immediately paid them off - lots of that.

As others have said, they're just ensuring that you don't hide anything that could be used to blackmail you.

The rates aren't that much higher at the technical level but as a Programme Director the rates were 40 - 50% higher than in the rest of the public sector. Once you're in, there tend to be openings in other departments requiring that level of clearance that one wouldn't otherwise get to hear about.

All in all, very worth it so long as you don't mind a good probing!

Pastalista

[SuperZ]

I find it funny someone has mentioned a 5 hour non-stop interview that wasn't that bad. Just the length alone is bad enough! However if you've nothing to hide and are used to being open and honest it might not be so bad I suppose.

[stek]

I find it funny someone has mentioned a 5 hour non-stop interview that wasn't that bad. Just the length alone is bad enough! However if you've nothing to hide and are used to being open and honest it might not be so bad I suppose.

TBH I don't remember much of an interview, more mates telling me they'd met some blokes who'd interviewed them about me, ironically in the local boozer, though to be fair me and clientco were located in a bit of a one-horse-town - either there or public bogs...

This was mid-90's though and I'm sure it was PV (Positive Vetting) then not DV - did it change terms or are they different animals? I was young then, never paid much attention.

I certainly got access to stuff previously denied, ie PC's locked in massive steel-lined cupboards running NT and Digital PowerStation. If I ever saw any raw data it mean nowt to me.

One part of clientco's site was super-secret, ie no windows or glass at all, and I had to work on this one box, had a PROM password on it. I asked what it was, and at least five blokes shouted it out, and it was so obvious I should have guessed. Same as what the plant made did, and four letters long...

I think that's vague enough to keep me out of trouble otherwise, Spasibo Tvarishu Stalinu.....