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    #41
    Originally posted by Zoiderman View Post
    It lasts for 5 years now, but once you leave your employment, if it's not taken up within the year, it expires.
    Cheers.

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      #42
      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
      The Security Controller tried to chase it up about a month ago but all they'd tell him was that the application had been received. I'm the first to have applied with the newfangled electronic system, and as everybody knows government IT only succeeds in making everything take twice as long.
      Apparently, they got some tulip hot contractors in to work on this one
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        #43
        Originally posted by Zoiderman View Post
        It lasts for 5 years now, but once you leave your employment, if it's not taken up within the year, it expires.
        security cleared role

        It's nothing about employment, or even project to a certain extent - it's whether you currently need access to secure documents / sites.

        DV clearance will lapse quicker - sometimes to the point of it expiring the moment you leave that role.
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          #44
          Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
          security cleared role

          It's nothing about employment, or even project to a certain extent - it's whether you currently need access to secure documents / sites.

          DV clearance will lapse quicker - sometimes to the point of it expiring the moment you leave that role.
          Apologies, yes that's true. However, I am leaving my role here, for another role, and they've said here, that they'll keep the clearance here for a year, and if a new role doesn't take it up within that year, it will lapse

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            #45
            Recieved a phonecall today from my sponsor ....................

            I had emailed and phoned last week to be kept up to date with any info for when the contract was starting, answers i got were very vauge, basically they company aren't set up for us to go in yet and when he knows more info he would let me know asap. Bear in mind my SC clearance is not through as of yet, it is still '' in progress ''

            Phonecall i got this afternoon was from my sponser stating that the job i was offered, well the company i would be working for has decided they don't want the work done in Scotland anymore so are moving it down south. So after been offered the job and waiting the guts of 3 months for my Clearance i have been informed that there is not a job available anymore ..................... I am still quite shocked that this could / has happened

            During the same conversation i was asked if i would still be interested in working for the company, im guessing outwith an SC role, and there ''may'' be opportunties and i would hear from him again next week.

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              #46
              Originally posted by harry85 View Post
              Phonecall i got this afternoon was from my sponser stating that the job i was offered, well the company i would be working for has decided they don't want the work done in Scotland anymore so are moving it down south. So after been offered the job and waiting the guts of 3 months for my Clearance i have been informed that there is not a job available anymore ..................... I am still quite shocked that this could / has happened
              The role fell through. Why are you shocked that this could happen?

              Disappointed, I could understand, as most of us have been when a role falls through that we wanted to do. However, if you are surprised that this happens, maybe contracting isn't for you.
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                #47
                Originally posted by Zoiderman View Post
                Apologies, yes that's true. However, I am leaving my role here, for another role, and they've said here, that they'll keep the clearance here for a year, and if a new role doesn't take it up within that year, it will lapse
                Blimey. They really cover all the bases at the Met Office don't they?
                Having security checked you personally, I bet they used to really give the tea-trolley you pushed around the once-over every day too, eh?

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by harry85 View Post
                  Recieved a phonecall today from my sponsor ....................

                  I had emailed and phoned last week to be kept up to date with any info for when the contract was starting, answers i got were very vauge, basically they company aren't set up for us to go in yet and when he knows more info he would let me know asap. Bear in mind my SC clearance is not through as of yet, it is still '' in progress ''

                  Phonecall i got this afternoon was from my sponser stating that the job i was offered, well the company i would be working for has decided they don't want the work done in Scotland anymore so are moving it down south. So after been offered the job and waiting the guts of 3 months for my Clearance i have been informed that there is not a job available anymore ..................... I am still quite shocked that this could / has happened

                  During the same conversation i was asked if i would still be interested in working for the company, im guessing outwith an SC role, and there ''may'' be opportunties and i would hear from him again next week.
                  I don't want to appear rude harry, but will be anyway.....

                  You...

                  Have convictions for assault, DD and 5 breaches of the peace which doesn't paint you in the best of light
                  Can't understand the need for clarity and openness in a Security questionnaire and though guessing the answers was acceptable
                  Find it unbelievable you need to go through a number of checks for a security role
                  Ask if they are progressing your application even though they have done a credit check on you
                  You are shocked a role fell through

                  I would question your ability to work in an SC environment let alone pass the test. Not quite the ideal candidate for letting lose on the nations secrets.

                  Maybe the end result was better for us all. Take a permie job and don't let life worry you anymore.
                  Last edited by northernladuk; 13 October 2011, 16:25. Reason: Is it possible to spell any worse than I do?
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                    #49
                    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
                    I don't want to appear rude harry, but will be anyway.....
                    Blimey - things have changed on CUK since I was last here!!
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                      #50
                      Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                      Blimey - things have changed on CUK since I was last here!!
                      Oi, cut me some slack... it is in General!!
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