How to Convince a Company to Sponsor Your Security Clearance

Jill Hamilton and Katie Keller run through a story of an employee at a mid-sized aerospace company as a lead engineer in the software domain. They are about to complete a big federal project and start a new one with a another federal defense agency. None of their present or future projects to date have needed a security clearance, but their company does a lot of work and advertises for roles requiring clearance. Can you convince your boss (or any company really) to sponsor you?As a contractor, you must be working on a contract that has work requiring a clearance to initiate the clearance process. As much as a company may value you as an employee, they cannot just get you a clearance for no reason. There are managers who have assigned folks that have proved themselves on an unclassified contract to a classified contract for the purposes of getting them a clearance. It takes finesse and patience, but tune in to this episode of ClearedCast to learn tips on negotiating someone to sponsor you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.