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GregNorc posted:I'm about to pick an internship for my PhD, which will probably be where I end up working post-grad school. If the pay really is that crappy, I don't see why I'd go for a goverment agency I don't either, unless you have some personal national service interest. You just described right here a huge part of the problem in attracting qualified applicants (not to imply education automatically brings competence, but you get the idea), though the bad economy changes things sometimes.
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GregNorc posted:Wow. I assumed there was some separate payscale someone would snarkily link me to. For full disclosure, you can sometimes have a de facto automatic progression to -12 a year after promotion to -11 (I don't know how this works for all job series, just mine). But as you're in a sci/tech industry, that's still not going to entice you much IMO. Tyro explained this more generally, too. edit: and yes, intel does tend to pay/start you higher, though it still uses the GS pay scale for salary and starting grades tend to vary depending on the organization. It's still going to be the -9/11/12 thing. People with less education than you can start at -7 in intel, even in DC sometimes. And usually you'll start at step 1, though particularly if you come in from contracting (as mentioned above), you might successfully negotiate a higher starting step. Zoo fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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GregNorc posted:Do contractors ever do research, or are those usually grunt programming/systems admin type roles? Yeah, as psydude said, contractors are everywhere (including at CERT, assuming you mean US-CERT).
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GregNorc posted:US-CERT = DHS, I was more referring to CERT/CC which is a federaly funded research development center. They're funded by the SEI over at CMU. Sorry, I'm so used to my part of government bureaucracy at this point that I just naturally align to the acronyms associated with organizations I work most with (one of which is DHS). But yeah, I'm sure the answer is the same, though I can speak authoritatively only about US-CERT. I tend to hear good things about FFRDCs.
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I don't see them on DIA's "recruiting events" page, but I see that the DIA posted a bunch of Hiring Events in my email auto-digest. They're all listed for GG-07, but that might mean GG-07+. To be honest I didn't look them up since they don't really apply to me, but might want to check http://diajobs.dia.mil/ and see what's there. edit: none of these seems to be for intel--they're for HR, comms, admin, info systems (that's series 2210, which some of you might be interested in), etc. Zoo fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Oct 26, 2011 |
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