atw: Security clearance closed shop
- From: "Stevens, Garry" <Garry.Stevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:38:36 +1100
Hi All:
I've recently seen several ads (or the same ad several times) for tw's with
current security clearance. I'm wondering about the mentality of the
employers behind these positions. Obviously, they restrict their potential
pool to the presumably small number of writers with such clearance, which
effectively creates a closed-shop.
The ads implicitly assume that there is a sufficient pool of unemployed
people in this closed shop to satisfy demand, since there is an implication
that clearance cannot be acquired in the same way that -- say -- my police
clearance was acquired before I started my last two jobs in the health and
welfare sectors: if you don't already have it, you can't get it.
Are these ads just fakes, placed because of whatever bureacratic
requirements, but designed to remove all except those who have already been
selected for the job?
Garry
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