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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00161R000100180023-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 23
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIA offers a vide variety of jobs for college graduates and
non?college graduates. For example, it can use engineers, doctors,
historians, econcedsts, physiea1 and biological ecientiste, business
administrators, mathematicians, cartographers, accountant*, purchasing
agents, electronice technicians, machine tabulators, translators,
librariang, printers, photographers, telephcae operators, and mamr
others. It uses a large number of clerical employees for typing,
filingand related purposes. float empleenes work either in idshington
or abroad*
Eeployees are. paid. in accordance with Civil Service scales
Starting salaries are weually at the level of $300041400 per year,
going up to the level of $1110004120000. (A few IssuPer-grades"
are available to senior employees on recommendation of a special
board.) Good insurance and retirement plans are offered along the
lines common within the government.
Standards of selection in CIA are rigorous* ant promotion is
b no means automatics. CIA. takes on the average of only 10% of
proepect&vs employees, an& it operates under a policy which requires ?
just *getting by.* It offers no encouragement to mediocrity*
On the other hand, for those -itio are selected and prove their
there is a carefully designed program which assures each
chance to round out a metal and satisfactory career.
Every employee of CIA is of personal interest to the CIA
career management people. An employee a preferences for a career
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within the Agency are node a record vhen he is employed, and he or
she Is given counsel and gvddance as to type of necessary
to naafi career objectives? This is in addition to the trainilig
irrailahle? to improve performance of awl:Toes in their present
pomitione and to qualify them for assignments of greater responato
bility. A CEA employee is evaluated -realistically, and longioiange
plans are prepared for them on a career basis This is a coopers.
tive effort between employees, averviews and career service
officials Assignments, traneihrs re-assignments, and operational
necessities are also discussed with the empinove as part of this
program training.
Among tto qaalifications for most inteUtnce 4obst is a
bechelorts degree or the equivalent from an accredited college or
tlagerattr* Ale* required are willingneoe as well as pkivieel. and
emotional fitness to eerie in the foreign or domestio field?
Imployees are given medisal. and psychoUgioal testing. Throughout
the training process, individes3n are from time to time screened
cut idea their P2'egress is not up to the expectations of the Agener
ce fail: to midntain the required students
For all successful CIA emplognes here *Career Service*
program in the' context of Which indiv?iduals can work out their 3ob
*Lwitb overt state under conditions of reasonable 4ob
security Tor younger employees there is a magnet designed
specifically to Joke Intelligence *professionals* out of promising
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young men and woven with the prospect of landing eventually In kw
agency jobs. The Agency is not in sty sense Isilitary* over 90% of
its emplrefees being civilian.
CIA provides training programs after eiin It can send
employees to colleges and graduate schools and to Depart:vont of
Defense schools such as the National War College* the Arseed Forces
Staff College* and the Strategic Intelligence School. It has its
own courses in various subjects of interest to it. It encamps
employses to develop c?roficirency in ease forty foreign language* of
varying degrees or difficulty* ciTaring cash swards for efficiency
attained
The attractions of work in the Central Intelligence Agency
lie in the satisfaction of doing something of importance for the
good of the united States; working with a highly' selected group of
people on matters that are often of more then routine interest;
and in the relative security of government employmant?
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