APPLICANT HIRING TIME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001900080030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: October 30, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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8 0 OCT 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director. for Administration -
Deputy Director. for National Foreign..
Assessment .Center
Deputy Director. for Operations
Deputy Director. for Science and Technology
Chairman,*Executive Career Service Board
FROM Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Applicant Hiring Time
1.' I have been concerned about 'the length of time it takes
to hire new employees' for. the Agency. The Office of Personnel
has analyzed the time taken for each 'step in the hiring proce-
dures,, from initial. contact to EOD. They are taking steps to
shorten as many of these steps as possible. For example-, an
applicant has been allowed up to 75 days to complete the appli-
cation. This will now be cut to a maximum of 42_ days. The
time from full clearance to EOD averages .53 days. OP will. press
applicants to EOD in a shorter, more reasonable time. Other
phases of the procedures which now take one to ttfo weeks to
accomplish will be done in no more than three work days.
2. One phase of the procedures is decision-making, which
averages 50 days for decisions to hire and 90 days for rejection.
This is where-I need the help of you and your personnel decision-
makers. The Office of Personnel advises me that over one-quarter .
of the applicant.files are kept in offices beyond the allotted
decision-making time of two weeks ' some as long as ten weeks.
OP is changing its procedures.so that offices must express
interest in short biographies of applicants listed in the New
Applicant File Acquisitions list. If no office expresses inter-
est in a name, that file will automatically be rejected in ten
calendar days. On files in which offices express an interest,
the offices will be given a maximum of ten calendar days to
decide whether they wish to interview candidates.
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SUBJECT: Applicant Hiring Time
3. You and your personnel decision-makers control-almost
one-third of the time it takes to hire an applicant. I strongly
urge you to. take the necessary steps outlined above to drasti-
cally. reduce this 'time.
7s1 Stansfield Turnn-r
STANSFIELD TURNER.
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