MINUTES OF 3 FEBRUARY 1982 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING: RECRUITMENT

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• Publication Date: February 10, 1982
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Committee Members
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SUBJECT: Minutes of 3 February 1982 Executive Committee Meeting:
Recruitment
1. The Executive Committee met on 3 February 1982 for an update on
recruitment. Mr. McMahon (ExDir) chaired the session; participants included
Messrs. Stein (DDO), Fitzwater (DDA), Gates (DDI), Taylor (ADDS&T), Briggs
(IG), and Glerum (D/OP).
2. Mr. Glerum noted that he was generally optimistic about the Agency's
recruitment posture but acknowledged that some problem areas did exist.
He highlighted the current status of hiring and applicant processing against
the FY-82 ceiling, projected personnel strength for the rest of the fiscal
year, and the typical pattern of applicant activity in a one-week period.
He noted three problem areas: the difficulties for the Offices of Personnel,
Medical Services, and Security to process the applicants necessary to meet
the FY-83 ceiling; and shortages of clericals and career trainee (CT)
candidates.
3. Reviewing efforts underway to alleviate the clerical shortage,
Mr. Glerum reported that the Agency was expanding advertising efforts beyond
the traditional boundaries, augmenting the clerical recruitment staff with
senior secretarial annuitants with overseas experience, and adding two clerical
recruiters to the Washington recruitment office. He emphasized the need to
set priorities regarding where new clericals should be assigned, and acknowledged
full relief on the clerical shortage would be unlikely until September.
4. Regarding the shortage of career trainees, Mr. Glerum explained
that the applicant pools were not producing the number of selected candidates
?that past experience would indicate. Remedial efforts include expanded
advertising and substantial involvement by the DDO, including annuitant
interviewers
identifying potentia
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CT candidates to try and increase-the numbers entering on duty. Mr. Taylor
initiated a brief discussion on the utility of CTs for directorates other
than the DDO. Mr. McMahon concluded that he thought it essential for the
DDS&T and DDI to have a core of CTs to ensure the development of a cadre
of professional intelligence officers..
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5. Mr. Glerum mentioned that the Agency also needed to improve efforts
to recruit certain "hard-to-get" categories of employees, including scientists
and economists. Activities to date include better tailoring of requirements
.and improving contacts in private industry and academic circles. Mr. Glerum
noted that the Agency's pay scale was not as competitive as it needed to be.
He advised that the ongoing pay study should provide some relief, and the
recent authorization bill will enable the DCI to provide relocation expenses
for "hard-to-get" categories of personnel. Mr. Fitzwater said that he was
exploring possibilities for paying new clericals sooner after they enter on
duty and for obtaining temporary housing for them to ease their relocation
strains.
6. Mr. Glerum urged attendees to keep their recruitment guides up to
date. Mr. McMahon initiated a discussion of past discrepancies between the
Office of Personnel and the directorates regarding the number of requirements
reflected in the guides. Mr. Glerum said that direct interaction with office-
level managers has overcome that problem and urged members to inform him
if it recurs. In response to Mr. Gates' concern about the lack of new "EODs"
for the DDI, Mr. Glerum suggested that he centralize DDI's priority categories.
Acknowledging OCR's acute clerical shortage, Mr. Glerum noted that more
clericals for the DDI were being assigned to OCR.
7. Mr. Briggs noted that if the Offices of Security and Medical Services
were under strength, efforts to process new applicants would bog down.
Mr. Glerum responded that his major concerns in the processing process were
backlogs in psychological assessments and polygraphs. Mr. McMahon requested
members to explore the possibility of providing to develop a 25x1
computer program to assist in scoring the psycho ogica assessments. He
also suggested that Mr. Fitzwater try to identify psychologists in other
components who could assist in alleviating the backlog. Contracting some
of this work out was also suggested as a possibility.
8. Mr. Fitzwater reviewed the polygraph workload, noting tradeoffs
among applicant processing, employee reinvestigations, and the industrial
security program. Mr. McMahon asked for a breakdown among the three
categories. He also suggested the possibility of contracting out some of
our initial polygraph screening. Mr. Glerum noted that problem cases could
then be turned over to Agency polygraph operators.
9. Mr. Briggs expressed concern that the Agency was not doing more
in developing parallel recruitment efforts with increased line involvement
to reduce the ratio of applicants to new employees. Mr. Glerum said that
DDO efforts in this area had been successful, but more needed to be done
in the DDI. and DDS&T. Mr. Gates noted that the Agency was still losing good
prospects because of the length of processing time.
10.- Summarizing the discussion, Mr. McMahon noted that Mr. Gates should
centralize DDI's recruitment priorities; Mr. Fitzwater should provide a progress
report by 17 February on alleviating the psychological assessment and poly-
graph problems; and Mr. Glerum should provide a progress report by 3 March
on vacancies, projected personnel strength, and anything else that could be,
done to improve recruitment.
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