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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The process is: preliminary screen: meaning do they see anything of concern...preliminary offer...SF-86...Investigation...Adjudication...offer.[/quote]
But it takes months from prelim to adjudication! Does the candidate wait all this time working for her previous employer, or not working?
In the old days companies (don't know about the govt) had "tanks" for new hires waiting for their clearances where they did... nothing much, really. I know someone who spent over a year sitting in the tank. Does this still happen?[/quote]

Not unless you have something like "Nobel laureate", "General", "SES", or "Published large chunks of Linux kernel" on your resume, or are a direct relative of someone in the C-suite. They won't even let people hang out in the tank more than a few weeks anymore, if you can't find a new position on a new project, you're gone.

If you're ordinary top 10% talent most companies will be willing to wait for you to get an interim clearance if the wait's under a few weeks.

FWIW, if your spouse has a high level clearance, they essentially do a Secret-level check on you. Or at least they did in 2010. [/quote]

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