{"id":147109,"date":"2021-01-04T23:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cias-new-recruitment-website-aims-to-diversify-spy-agency\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:18:49","slug":"cias-new-recruitment-website-aims-to-diversify-spy-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cias-new-recruitment-website-aims-to-diversify-spy-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"#CIA\u2019s new recruitment website aims to diversify spy agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#CIA\u2019s new recruitment website aims to diversify spy agency<\/strong>”
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WASHINGTON \u2014 WANTED: Spies from all backgrounds and walks of life.<\/p>\n

Striving to further diversify its ranks, the CIA launched a new\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0Monday to find top-tier candidates who will bring a broader range of life experiences to the nation\u2019s premier intelligence agency<\/p>\n

The days of all American spies being white male graduates from Ivy League schools are long gone. The CIA director is a woman and women head all five of the agency\u2019s branches, including the directorates of science<\/a> and technology<\/a>, operations and digital innovation.<\/p>\n

But while the CIA has been diversifying for years, intelligence agencies still lag the federal workforce in minority representation. With thousands of job app<\/a>licants annually, the CIA wants to do more to ensure its workforce reflects national demographics.<\/p>\n

The revamped website has links for browsing CIA jobs complete with starting salaries and requirements, sections on working at the agency, and a streamlined application process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve come a long way since I applied by simply mailing a letter marked \u2018CIA, Washington, D.C.,\u2019\u201d said CIA Director Gina Haspel, who joined the agency in 1985. She said in a statement that she hopes the new website piques the interest of talented Americans and gives them a sense of the \u201cdynamic environment that awaits them here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haspel has made recruitment a priority since she became the first female director in May 2018. Since then, the CIA has started advertising on streaming services, launched an Instagram account and an online \u201conion site,\u201d a feature that makes both the information provider and the person accessing information more difficult to trace.<\/p>\n

Last year, the CIA designated its first executive for Hispanic engagement, Ilka Rodriguez-Diaz, a veteran of more than three decades with the agency. She first joined after attending a CIA job fair in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CIA had never been on my radar,\u201d she wrote in an op-ed in The Miami Herald after getting the job in October. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I fit the \u2018profile.\u2019 After all, the spies I saw on TV were male Anglo-Saxon Ivy leaguers, not Latinas from New Jersey. Still, I went to my expert life coach, my mother, for advice. She said, \u2018No pierdes nada con ir.\u2019 (What have you got to lose in going?) So, I went to the job fair. The rest, as they say, is history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the more than a dozen U.S. spy agencies, including the CIA, 61% of intelligence professionals in fiscal 2019 were men compared with 39% women, according to an annual demographics report compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n

In fiscal 2019, the intelligence community saw an incremental increase in the number of minority professionals \u2014 26.5%, up from 26.2%. But that\u2019s still lower than 37 percent in the federal workforce as a whole and 37.4 percent in the civilian labor force, the report said.<\/p>\n

The largest minority or ethnic group at all the intelligence agencies, including the CIA, was Black or African American at 12% followed by Hispanic at 7% and Asian at 4%. Persons with disabilities represent 11.5% of the workforce at all the U.S. intelligence agencies \u2014 up a point from the year before.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with all the challenges 2020 posed, it was a standout recruitment year for CIA. Our incoming class is the third largest in a decade and represents the most diverse talent pool, including persons with disabilities, since 2010,\u201d said CIA spokesperson Nicole de Haay.<\/p><\/div>\n

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