APPLICANTS IN PROCESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-07181R000200030033-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Content Type: REQ

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APPLICANTS IN PROCESS
QUESTION
Should applicants in process for staff positions be reflected on the
PCR? If so, where should they be shown?
BACKGROUND
Approximately ten years ago, the practice of reporting applicants in
process against specific positions on the PCR was discontinued. There were
several reasons for this:
1. Frequent reorganizations caused elimination of positions from the PCR
against which applicants were in process and there was no provision for
reentering them on the new positions established.
2. The actual position the applicant would eventually fill was generally
a guess, at best.
3. There was not much discipline in record keeping and applicants which
had long since canceled kept appearing on the PCR's.
DISCUSSION
1. The present Request for Security Clearance does not provide for
position number. It does provide for division code but, except for CTP,
Placement Division codes them all to the office - General or to the Development
Complement. The Request for Personnel Action, from which the information for
the security request is taken, usually carries the organizational breakdown,
so that it could be coded with little additional work.
2. Apparently, there is a current tendency to process certain categories
of personnel for several possible positions rather than a specific position.
3. Applicants processed by the Office of Personnel on a contigency
basis for unspecified future vacancies would have to be shown somewhere.
4. Carrying applicants on the PCR should tend to eliminate some of the
present discrepancies we now have but there are other ways of solving this
problem.
5. In the survey conducted by only the Office of Logistics
requested applicants be shown. Their situation is somewhat unique in that a
bulk of their applicants are clearly earmarked for specific flexible positions.
6. Although most offices keep statistics on applicants in process, few
have requested or are provided with any statistics from the central record.
It would be simple to prepare any required statistics.
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7. The question of reporting applicants on the PCR was included on the
questionnaire to office and area division personnel officers.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Unless the central Office of Personnel has strong preferences one
way or another, it is recommended that we wait for the returns of the
questionnaire and let the. majority rule.
2. If the majority of the office and area division personnel officers
want them reported on the PCR, list them as applicants after the Development
Complement at the end of a division.
3. Change the procedures in Placement Division to require coding to the
division level.
4. Do not include provision for slot identification inasmuch as it
probably will be different from actual EOD slot in many cases.
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