DS&T RECRUITMENT BROCHURE QUESTIONNAIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88R00729R000200060003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 28, 1985
• Content Type: MF

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28 March 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Career Development Staff/DDS~T
Career Counseling $ Training Staff/OTS
SUBJECT: DSF~T Recruitment Brochure Questionnaire
REFERENCE: Memo DDS~T-242-85 to D/OTS fm DDS~T dtd
19 Mar 85, Subj: DST Recruitment Brochure
Attached is a list of reponses which is keyed to the
attachment of the above referenced memo.
cc: Director of Technical Service
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1. The OTS missions is to provide technical support to the collection
of human intelligence and information collection in the field and partici-
pate in collection programs involving use of highly specialized equipment.
This involves development and engineering both in OTS facilities and through
outside contractors, intensive and extensive quality control and suitability
testing and deployment to the field to monitor its use.
2. Engineering: Electronic, electrical, nuclear, mechanical
enginee nri g tec~ulology
Sciences: Chemistry, physics, psychology, forensics,
photograp~c science, computer, packaging
Crafts Trades: Plastics, leater, wood and machine shop,
mode mating, ceramics, bookbinding, printing, engraving,
industrial and commercial art, electronic technology,
industrial technology, video and still photography
Liberal Arts Others: Languages, doctunent analyses,
specialize military s cells in ordnance and demolitions,
international relations
3. A11 technology as it applies to support of the human collector:
electronics, mechanics, photographic science, contract management, test
procedures.
4. Applied technologies; practical, innovative solutions to problems;
ability to devise relatively long term, complex D$E programs as well as
respond in the quck reaction mode to ad hoc needs demanding short term
solutions, i.e., make one of a kind, modify existing equipment to do
something other than what designed for, etc.
5. Engineers, technicians, photographers, all craft and shop type
jobs, printers, engravers, artists, psychologists; telephone, antenna,
radio specialists; ordnance specialists; depending upon experience, outside
competition, degree level, skill rarity, etc., grades are from entry level
GS-7 through GS-13 and -14.
6. All new employees are in OJT status (open ended), are required
to take entry level OTS and OT~E courses; as career progresses may take
appropriate OT~E and other government training courses for career development;
professional or technical courses, seminars or workshops are given as needed;
further personal education is encouraged as job requirements permit;
tuition support for job related courses is given.
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7. All prospective OTS employees must accept the probability of travel
as intrinsic to the job. Both domestic and foreign TDYs and foreign PCSs
are highly probable in the course of a career. In some positions, the travel
is frequent and many times ad hoc.
8. Careers are essentially technical with provisions for certain skill
recognitions, i.e., GSE and GSP scales and GAD Wage Grade rates that are
based on industry scales. Certain individuals at GS-13 or -14 journeyman
level may progress further on technical rather than managerial tracks
through the SSEP.
9. Yes. OTS's prime mission is support for the DDO; one group has
extensive working relationships with DDI and other parts of the community;
as directed, OTS maintains other working relationships in areas of common
intelligence interests with DOD, DA, FBI, Secret Service, etc.
10. OTS is unique. Its people have to be flexible, inventive,
inquisitive, be problem solvers, have a tinkerer's skill and interest,
function not only as technical specialists but also have the talents and
skills of case officers, able to work in hostile environments, be street
smart and think on their feet. We offer positions that pique interest; the
work is not boring.
12. Restrictions involve working in covert status for a career;
occasional need for overtime and weekend work especially on TDY, some
travel needs that may evoke hardship due to family separations; work in
denied or hazardous areas on occasion.
13. Better: more variety from the very start -- one is not confined to
the job one is hired for; encouragement to learn other skills and disciplines,
travel to places no one else visits, job satisfaction, a lot of personal
interaction; over the long haul, in spite of retirement changes, probably
better job security.
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