Originally Posted by
Asturias56
A friend in a fairly sensitive post reckons he's almost unsackable as it took them 6 months to clear him and they're now far, far longer to add bodies in his area.
Yep, and with a certain organisation trying to staff up for a significant major long term expenditure project currently, and struggling as that part of civilian industry pretty much stopped training people in the UK a decade or more ago, for some roles that they need, as cheaper to import the skills from abroad, or in most case simply outsourcing the work to India etc., so while its fine to be very picky about skills sets on one hand, if the people are not there with those skills sets AND can't satisfy getting through required clearance they have a continued problem. They choose someone, start the process, but can't offer a contract, and when finally that person passes clearance to be able to offer a contract, so long has passed, they have found another role that they don't wish to leave, so they are back to square one again, and so quite often the resource is being used to clear someone that is now not needing the clearance, and that resource now has to be used all over again.....this creates extra demand on the system. Then there is the issue that people with the right skills sets, can't get through clearance, again, back to square one. Some people with the right skills sets, and ability to gain clearance are also oddly being rejected by said organisation much to the consternation of another organisation.....