SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRESS AND PROGRAM PLANS PERSONNEL PROCUREMENT DIVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000100090011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 31, 1956
• Content Type: MF

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1.. In compliance with your memorandum dated 11 July 1955 on
the above subject, there is submitted herewith the Report `of Progress
and Program Plans of the PersoasneI Procurement Division. fc r the second
hs.lf of. Fiscal Year 1956.
2. Statistics covering. interviews, recommended cases,. security
initiations, and EOD's for Fiscal Year 1956 .are.app.ended. Emphasis has
been placed. during the . past six: months on recruiting,clerical during the
productive school. season, JQV_s, and communications type,
cluding couriers, messengers, TIBM Operators, labors, chauffeurs, and
clerks (general and: special), and administrative support personnel in-
in this report, construed to mean clerk-stenographers, clerk-typists,
through this Branch to' the Personnel Assignment Division.. Clerical is,
by the three Personnel Procurement Division Branches and processed
Clerical Recruitment
1. In spite of competition from. numerous agencies, including.many
that have not been in the field for a number of years, we feel we were success
ful in getting at least. our share of graduates from the schools and colleges
in the eastern United States. Contact was made either by letter or by per-
sonal visit of a recruitment officer at every business and secretarial school,
junior and senior college offering secretarial studies as fax west as. the
Mississippi. River. High schools were exploited throixgh..Maryland, West
Virginia, North Carolina, and southern Pennsylvania. We made contact
with no less. than 700 schools. It could further be estimated that in view
of the reception at most of these schools and the opportunities afforded our
recruiters. to publicly address. groups of students, not less than 3.0, 000
students had. an opportunity to know of Agency employment opportunities.
In, addition, an attempt was made this year to exploit the California commu-
nity college system. Contact was made with :all 65 junior colleges in
California, Attractive local employment situations, student apathy, dis
ts.nce to. Washington, and the heretofore unheard-of Agency, blended to
make the program at best a "missionary effort."
2. Below is the breakdown of completed clerical. cases :developed.
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low-level reproduction workers.
Completed Clerical Cases Referred to PAD (1 Jan 56 - 30 June 56)
CRB 1115
DRB 504
SRB 58
Total 1677
3. The production of the Branch was increased during the school
season by the assistance of the detailees assigned from various components
of the Office of Personnel. Eight detailees contributed 91 man-weeks of
recruiting. They conducted 1532 interviews which led to 374 completed
recommended cases referred to PAD. The success of this program. suggests
that. with the cooperation of the Office of Personnel it should be repeated
each year. The chief feature of the program was. our ability to fan out
more extensively in the marginal territories to schools which are usually
inaccessible because of our limited staff.
4. Early in April, CRB began to actively participate in the procure-
ment of communications personnel. CRB, to date, has referred 164 com-
pleted recommended cases for review by the Office of Communications. To
this number may be added another 26 completed cases submitted by Office
of Communications detailees who participated in field recruitment under the
auspices of this Branch. These detailees made seven field trips and con-
ducted 112 interviews and recommended 66. Probably the chief value of
these commo detailees has been the opportunity afforded. CRB recruiters
to actually work with the professional communicator and, thereby, learn
first hand of the problems and requirements of the Office of Communications.
5. In the total interviews conducted by this Branch are included
both Office of Personnel and Office of Communications detailee figures.
During the period 3782 interviews were conducted. It could be generally
estimated that not less than 90 per cent were clerical.
6. The present staffing of CRB consists of ten field recruitment
officers, only four of whom have been in the field more than one year.
Of the six junior men. two have been in active recruitment less than six
months. These facts should have some bearing on the Branch capabilities
through the first half of FY 57. The extremely tight labor market for
qualified clerical personnel will continue to be a hardship facing this
activity. With very few exceptions, there are no recruitment areas in
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which the supply of clerical personnel exceeds the demand. Our present
method of contacting potentially interested clerical people during the June
to January (the non-school season) period is definitely limited. We will
continue to use advertising as our chief source. The exploitation of the
few private contacts we have with the airlines will continue and the occa-
sional screening of student lists to be sent contact letters will provide
some future production. However, without more positive publicity, it
will be virtually impossible to meet the Agency's clerical needs after the
initial deluge of school students have entered on duty. We hope the brochure
will be a means to this end.
Communications Recruitment
During the last half of 1955 and the first half of 1956 commo re-
quirements have reached the' highest levels attained in a number of years.
According to the Office of Communications MEOD's are required for
the coming six month period. We believe this to be a twelve-month figure
since the difference between the on-board strength and ceiling is less
25X9A2 than- However, in order to meet their stated needs, we are placing
into security approximately new cryptographers, radio operators.,
commo technicians, and engineers each month. A. substantial part of
the increased production has been due to the assigning of other than
engineer types to the clerical recruitment staff.
Departmental Recruitment
Due to a more aggressive approach to the Washington Metro-
politan Area labor market, the number of interviews conducted at 2430 E
Street increased 24 per cent during the first six months of this year com-
pared to the same period last year. This office is now interviewing ap-
proximately 8000 applicants a year. One clerical recruiter has been
transferred to this Branch to handle the increased load and to assist in
carrying out the policy of generating candidates as well as interviewing
those who walk in to that office.
1. During the second half of the year the professional recruiters
in the Specialized Recruitment Branch were engaged primarily in JOT
recruitment, commo, special recruitment for and ~. A
comparison of the 1956 statistics with 1955 will show an over-all increase
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of 33 per cent was attained in professional cases going into security while
meeting all external needs for the priority projects.
2. Our greatest problem is the recruitment of electronics engineers
and electronics technicians. This problem is country-wide for all organiza-
tions requiring men with this training. Our limitations lie first in the amount
of time required to select, process, and make an offer to a candidate, and
second, in the salary and moving expenses which we can offer him.
3. Our second problem lies in JOT recruitment. It is our estimate
that 60 to 65 men and women will EOD as a result of the recruitment of the
past 12 months. This figure is a sizable improvement over the production
of previous years, but it leaves us with a problem for the coming year when
100 or more people are desired.
4. Draft Eligibles. Although Agency Regulation -permits
the recruitment of draft eligibles when qualified veterans cannot be found
and when it is likely that we shall have a year or more of service before
the man is drafted, few offices are taking advantage of this Regulation.
Since there are a large number of men seeking their first jobs who have
not completed their military duty, we are' eliminating a large number of
well qualified candidates from consideration.
5. Salaries and Fringe Benefits. Our salary offerings are not
competitive with private industry, as shown in a number of recent studies.
Our offers to Ph. D.'s are not competitive with what is being offered to
the better Ph.D. by university standards. Our inability to pay the cost
of moving for a new employee places us at a disadvantage in competition
with private industry. Some progress has been made in salaries through
the recent increases for engineers and natural scientists. Current dis-
cussion in Congress with respect to paying moving expenses to Washington
or to the first place of employment for engineers and natural scientists
will, if approved, be a notable assistance to our recruiting effort.
1. Two brochures are being planned. The first brochure is in-
tended for JOT's only. We hope to follow with another brochure aimed
at the professional need for "specific" jobs.
2. Briefings for consultants and SRB recruiters are planned for
the first part of October with an arrangement for an overlap so that
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consultants and recruiters may become acquainted with each other.
3. Plans are under way to organize recruiting trips to the various
universities through the efforts of a large number of volunteer recruiters
from DDP.
4. It is hoped that arrangements can be made for junior officers
to write their placement people in the colleges from which they graduated
and to their old faculty friends, urging that future graduates be informed
of CIA possibilities for employment.
5. Plans are being made by Chief, A&E, QTR, in conjunction with
PPD to coordinate the testing programs of NSA and CIA so that we can use
the testing centers which NSA is setting up at more than 100 universities.
6. We will continue to utilize clerical recruiters on recruiting
commo technicians, radio operators, and cryptographers.
7. The "positive" approach to the Washington labor market will
be continued in DRB.
8. Increased emphasis will be given to the recruitment of engineers
and scientists and one SRB recruiter will be given full responsibility for
this type of professional recruiting.
9. Analyses will be made of clerical recruitment for the first
and last halves of calendar year 1956. We hope to obtain valuable data
from these analyses as to the most profitable clerical sources, declina-
tion reasons and rates, and other information which will be of great value
in planning the 1957 school campaign.
Chief, Personnel Procurement
Divis ion
Attachment
Production of PPD for FY 56
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PRODUCTION 0? PERSONNEL PROCLTRr tT DIVISION
FISCAL YEAR 1956
interviews recommended Cases Security Initiations
EOD's
Office of the Chief
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47
Cler.
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6
Cler..
1
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U
Cler,
rof,
SRB
1435
3198
633
1085
454
440
CRB
5841
104
2128
89
1327
12
DRB
4141
3239
2153
1175
920
193
14101
C 7r
235
2702
Clerical: GS-6 and below, except JOT's; Professional: all types CS-7 and above
Combined Totals:
Interviews
Recommended Cases
Security Initiations EOD's
Office of the Chief
61
6
12
SRB
4633
1718
894
CRB
5945
2217
1339
DRB
7380
3328
1113
18, 019
33-56
NOTE: Above figures include production of persons detailed to tie Division during the last half of FY 56
inasmuch as,the cutmoff date of 30 June 56 limits reporting of outcome of all detailee recruitment, a full
report of this effort will be made at the time of the Sere Annual Progress Report for July-December 1956,
FY 57.
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