OC EFFORTS TO EXPEDITE RECRUITMENT OF PERSONNEL FOR THE OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000600090027-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: February 26, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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26 FEB 1981
2E'r 1
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Administration
Director of Communications
SUBJECT: OC Efforts to Expedite Recruitment of Personnel
for the Office
1. The Office of Communications has pressed vigorously during the past
year to assist OPPPM with the recruitment and employment of personnel for OC.
These efforts have included countless offers of OC.assistance and meetings to
stress the growing personnel problem. OC has specifically taken the following
actions.
a. OC employees have accompanied OPPPM or EEO recruiters on eight
trips during the year. OC is now planning to send a representative to
Huntsville, Alabama; St. Louis, Missouri, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
to interview prospective employees at their home area. This action will
avoid OPPPM funding for interview trips to Washington and hopefully
expedite the hiring process. OC is funding for this travel.
b. OC has actively sought and trained internal upward mobility candi-
dates to serve as communicators. Six such employees were trained in 1980.
Class 1-81, consisting of eight students, has four internal candidates and
Class 2-81, which consists of fourteen students and commences training on
02 March, will have seven internal candidates.
c. OC has provided $3,000 to OPPPM for the placement of ads to
increase the flow of recruits. We are now attempting to arrange the
transfer of an additional $50,000 for this purpose. This illustrates the
importance OC places on the personnel shortage situation since these funds
are being diverted from important programs.
d. OC proposed, and guided through some bureaucratic hurdles, a pro-
posal to hire personnel for OC with provisional clearances in order to
expedite employment. This approach met with some success at a cost in OC
training and personnel management resources.
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SUBJECT: OC Efforts to Expedite Recruitment of Personnel
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e. OC has opened the door to bring people on board at any time regard-
less of the numbers involved. OC now tailors training classes to the flow
of new employees rather than scheduling entrance on duty in accordance with
training schedules.
f. OC has worked closely with OPPPM to define needs and brief recruiters
regarding the OC system. The attached pamphlet is one example of the type
assistance provided to the recruiters by OC.
g. OC is exploring with OPPPM the possibility of acquiring military
detailees for employment until the Office is up to strength and new demands
for service are met.
2. The Office of Communications continues to explore additional methods to
stimulate the recruitment and hiring process. We are prepared to go to any
length within our capabilities to be helpful in this regard.
Attachment:
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To the Reader:
The Office of Communications performs an extremely valuable ser-
vice for the government of the United States. It has gained a reputation
as the best in Its field among knowledgeable officials. This position was
achieved because of the outstanding performance of well trained and
dedicated employees.
The facility provides students more than good, sound technical
training. All of the instructors are themselves graduates of the school
with years of experience working in the Office of Communications. They
incorporate this knowledge into their training efforts to help prepare
students to understand and cope with all aspects of their chosen career.
Graduates are ready to go to work, confident of their skills and with a
feeling of belonging to the organization.
The school does not forget the employee after initial training. Most
employees return for advanced training throughout their careers. Many
take advantage of self-study programs sponsored by the training facility.
Employees look upon the school as a helpful, friendly home whenever
they return.
It is hoped that the following pages will Illustrate our goals for this
school--quality training in a good learning environment.
The Faculty
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Operational
Training
The primary task of the Operational Training
Department is to train the new communicator in
the operation of all equipments and procedures
which make up the Office of Communications'
world-wide network. This basic training is con-
ducted in ten phases which concludes with a
final three-week comprehensive exercise.
The secondary task of the Operational Train-
ing Department is to teach skills in limited
maintenance on existing systems such as
teletype, radio, and cryptographic equipment as
well as operations of advanced systems such
as optical character readers, data-rate printers,
and automated field terminals.
To accomplish these tasks, the department is
staffed with seventeen highly skilled instruc-
tors who have an average of 15 years field ex-
perience. These instructors effectively teach
and motivate the students in their new career
field.
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Technical
Training
The Office of Communications Technical
Training Department consists of twelve staff in-
structors and a department chief. All personnel
assigned to this staff are volunteers who serve
on a rotating tour basis. They are all experienc-
ed technicians who have served one tour
overseas.
The technical curriculum offerings consist of
forty resident courses ranging from basic elec-
tronic theory to computer and satellite systems.
The basic course consists of twenty training
modules which requires thirty weeks to com-
plete. Analog, digital and logic devices are
covered. Included in this course is a three week
module entailing proper and secure installation
procedures for both signal and electrical cir-
cuits. This training combines classroom and
hands-on work performed in a simulated field
environment.
After approximately two years as an appren-
tice technician, selected personnel will return
for further studies in sophisticated systems,i.e.
computer switches, optical character readers,
high-speed digital and satellite systems.
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Learning
Resources
Center
The Learning Resources Center,
located within OC's residency school
building, was created to supplement
the students classroom instruction.
It provides for after hours instruction,
either as a refresher or as a
mechanism for the review of
classroom studies.
The center contains ten self-study
carrell positions of multiple function.
Depending upon the format of in-
struction, be it video. slide-audio or
filmstrip-audio, each position pro-
vides the student with the ap-
propriate viewing equipment.
A large selection of self-
administered and other educational
programs, including a small
language lab is maintained at the
center.
The center is also the CCTV
distribution facility for the school,
capable of transmitting video pro-
grams, selected by the instructors, to
any ten of the twenty classrooms
wired into the system
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Multi-Media
Center
The office of Communications Train-
ing Facility has as a part of available
training resources a modern multi-
media center. The center has the
capability to produce courses and
programs in all forms of media.
It has a high quality color television
production studio with extensive
post-production capability, a largely
self-contained graphic studio
capable of virtually any type of
graphics and a modern audio studio
as well as an independent
photographic studio.
While the production of media in
response to the residency school is
the primary mission, the multi-media
center also supports media re-
quirements from many components
both within and outside of the Office
of Communications.
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