SECRETARIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000300050085-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: August 30, 1978
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO: Director of Personnel
03AUG1978
SUBJECT: Secretarial Development Programs
The Defense Intelligence Agency is a small agency in. the Department of
Defense charged with the production of foreign military intelligence
in support of departmental and national consumers. The Agency employs
approximately 2,200 civilian employees and.a like number of military
personnel.
We are embarking on a project to develop a comprehensive, meaningful,
career development pro ram for our clerical ' em o ees. In doing so,
we are contacting a number of personnel officials, both in government
and the private sector., to avail ourselves of your experience in this
area.
Specifically, we are interested-in learning of efforts-which your
organization may have made to enhance the clerical, career, both in
terms of desirability of the&job and to achieve excellence in clerical
support to your mission. Such actions might include (but are not
limited to):
- Training courses at determined points in the career progression
Selection criteria - factors used in evaluating candidates
- Advancement criteria - how candidates for a high position are
selected
- Career paths - a definition of paths for advancement to which
secretarial personnel can reasonably aspire within the secre-
tarial profession
- Upward mobility - avenues for self-improvement and advancement
external to the secretarial field
- Skills and abilities documentation - internal personnel manage-
ment information systems used to display qualifications of
current employees and/or external job candidates.
We would very much appreciate_a copy---of an pertinent manuals, brochures
or other publications which you may be able to share with us. If you
have any questions, please give me a call at 695-6249 or 695-9146. Also,
if it would be more convenient, I would be pleased to visit your office
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to discuss your program. Please send your inputs to:
Defense Intelligence Agency
ATTN: RPM-1 (Mr. Park)''
Washington, D.C. 20301
Your assistance is genuinely appreciated.'
Sincerely,
TER` G. PARK, JR.
Special Assistant for Career
Development
Civilian Personnel Division
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