SC/DV Clearance

[Phoenix]

How do these agencies get away with it????

"The ideal candidate
will have a current and valid DV security
clearance (or be prepared to go through vetting)"

It's the last bit in brackets that hacks me off!! OK my Clearance was valid through to 2008, but I haven't used it for 14 months...so It has lapsed.
Do they view me as a risk now!...........It cannot be that hard to renew!


All the Agents I have spoken to are not interested anymore...And surely that cannot be legal!

AHHHH!

[Mailman]

No its not legal and the only way around it would be for the agents to show some backbone and TELL their clients this is illegal. If their clients then found no one willing to work with them then they would change their ways.

But you and I know this will never happen.

Mailman

[Phoenix]

Makes my blood boil....
"(or be prepared to go through vetting)"

Just to cover there arse! But absolutely meaningless

[The Lone Gunman]

Why is that so annoying?

For MOD and other jobs you have to be cleared. If you are not already cleared you need to be. If you are not willing to be cleared then there is no point applying.

If the ad said must be cleared without the later proviso then they would be breaking the rules.

[Phoenix]

Why is that so annoying?

For MOD and other jobs you have to be cleared. If you are not already cleared you need to be. If you are not willing to be cleared then there is no point applying.

If the ad said must be cleared without the later proviso then they would be breaking the rules.

Because my dear pistol spinning friend they have no intension of putting forward anyone who is "willing to be cleared"

[malvolio]

Probably doesn't help but I've been pushing this through other channels for a while now, in the hope I can get someone big enough to tell HMG the level of abuse they are facing. Snag is, most of the HMG departments are aware of it already, so I'm not holding my breath. The line I'm pushing is that it is restraint of trade since I am not competing on a level basis (I've also held SC and will be able to get it again very easily so we are at least a bettter bet than someone who has never held clearance), and that is against EU law.

Incidentally there is another variant appearing - "...or have worked on a secure site in the last 12 months"...

[Mailman]

Because it doesnt take a numpty to realise that they wont touch anyone who doesnt hold a SC LG.

Mailman

[Phoenix]

Well where do I sign?

Who are you complaining at?

[The Lone Gunman]

Because it doesnt take a numpty to realise that they wont touch anyone who doesnt hold a SC LG.

Mailman

Gentlemen. I do believe you are talking out of your collective arses.

If you are the best man for the job or the only man applying then they will put you forward.

I do not have SC but have been put forward for SC jobs and the client is willing to wait.

[Asterix]

Ditto

Not really a problem. If you've had BC/SC/DV before you are a likely candidate full stop. Rest of it is agent 'merde'. Plus anyone ex-military or civil service is also likely to get it, so don't be put off by any wakners.