NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER NPIC JOB ENHANCEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B00832R000100020158-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 158
• Publication Date: March 20, 1978
• Content Type: REGULATION

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NPIC NOTICE
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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
NPIC JOB ENHANCEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM
TRAINING
20 March 1978
The NPIC Job Enhancement Training Program (JET), developed in
1973 by the Director, NPIC, serves to strengthen the Center's
capabilities through increased training and education for individuals
of all jobs and grades. The JET is designed to enhance, through
training, employees' interest and excellence in doing their jobs, and
to aid individuals to qualify for more rewarding work. The Program
consists of three main types of training experiences which will be
offered to employees in all grades:
1. Sabbatical Education
Experiences should be for one of these purposes:
- To strengthen the individual's capability to contribute
to the work of the Center and the Agency.
- To assist the individual to qualify for future assignments
which are more rewarding.
a. A Sabbatical Education experience should be full-time
attendance at an academic institution (college or university) which
offers instruction in fields relevant to the activities of the
Center and the Agency--such as international affairs, statistics,
photogrammetry, management, and graphic arts. This experience
should be for one year, six months, or for the duration of one
semester/quarter, whichever is appropriate.
b. The War Colleges and full-time college or university
training are training experiences to be included in the Sabbatical
category. Courses such as DDS&T Career Development Course and
Midcareer are included in Skills Training.
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2. Skills Training
Experiences should be for one of these purposes:
- To strengthen the individual's capability to contribute
to the work of the Center and the Agency.
- To assist the individual to improve performance on the
assigned job, and to progress in positions related to
that kind of work.
- To assist the individual in the acquisition of a new
skill.
a. A Skills Training experience involves development of a
specific work skill relevant to the person's assigned job, either
through education or practical application. This experience
should be a full-time effort in a field relevant to activities
of the Center and the Agency -- such as, secretarial and clerical
work, computer programming, printing, graphic arts, information
storage and retrieval, management, budgeting, upward mobility
courses, and photographic processing techniques.
b. Skills Training falls in one of these four categories:
(1) Academic Training - Any university or college
course(s) for credit - before, during, or after hours. This
category does not include seminars or conferences even if
they take place at a university. The Off-Campus courses fall
in this category.
(2) Technical and Communication Skills Training; On-Site
Trips - This category includes short technical courses conducted
at universities, institutions or commercial schools, the CSC,
USDA, OTR, ODP, and at commercial companies such as UNIVAC or
Baush and Lomb. Also included are technically-oriented on-site
trips, seminars, and conferences.
(3) Management (Non-Academic) Training - This category
includes all courses in management, including EEO and Penn
State which are not regular college or university courses
(See a above). For example, the Program for Creative Manage-
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ment, Fundamentals of Supervision and Management and Financial
Management would fall in this category.
(4) Familiarization and Overview - Courses included in
this category are designed to give all levels of personnel
an overview of or to familiarize them with a particular
subject area.
i.e. FSI Area Studies
Midcareer
CIA Today and Tomorrow
ODS&T Career Development Course
3. Work Assignment
Experiences should be for one of these purposes:
- To strengthen the individual's capability to contribute
to the work of the Center and the Agency.
- To assist the individual by providing new and different
experiences in kind, or organizational activity which could
enhance the person's career progress.
a. A work assignment experience involves job assignment to an
organization other than his parent component. This includes, For
example, rotational assignments to CIA or DIA offices as well as
to other areas of NPIC. A work assignment should be full time in
a field related to work of the Center and the Agency -- such as
intelligence analysis, civil collection, systems development, uses
of photography, printing, communications, information systems, and
management.
b. In most cases the experience should be for a period of two
months to one year at a time, for each individual selected.
o' JUHN J. HICKS
Director
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