CIA: Oh, I'm tempted to go just for the entertainment value.

[icarus]

Just got this reminder email, to be sure I don't miss my chance to interview with the CIA:

It's No Secret. The CIA has a variety of challenging and rewarding career opportunities!

We will be hosting an Information Session on Monday, 10/23 at 5 PM
in HUB Room 309.

The session will be conducted by representatives from the Directorate of
Intelligence (Analysis), Open Source Center (Foreign Media) and the
National Clandestine Service (Operations). Online applications for
interviews through Husky Jobs have closed, but feel free to bring your
resume to the information session to be considered for available interview
slots on Tuesday.


[Name Deleted]
Regional Recruiter
Central Intelligence Agency
West Coast Recruitment Office
Website: www.cia.gov

Think they'll still be interested when they find my foreign language is Sanskrit? I can just see how that interview would go.

CIA recruiter clasps his hands together: So, what's your major?

Icarus: South Asian studies.

CIA recruiter nods: Definitely an area we're intereted in.

Icarus: I study Ancient India, specializing in the fourth century and the reign of the Buddhist King Asoka. Got any job openings?

CIA recruiter: Um.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

blackletter points out that they may consider Latin as a wonderful base to teach you other languages.

I just want to ask them about Rumsfeld's new Secret Support Branch (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29414-2005Jan22.html) WG read about in the Washington Post.

she was explaining her interview process from a perspective of a Dr. of psychology. *snerk* Too funny.

Now I'm curious. How was it different from any other interview process?

Icarus

[enname.livejournal.com]

Yes, might be, but I highly doubt that medieval Latin is a wonderful basis to teach anyone anything. It is in a lot of ways only similar at a surface level to classical Latin. Unless of course they have a lot of Catholic documents that need reading....

Who doesn't?

Well she was a trained (as in pysch trained and police trained) at profiling and interviewing. So she said it was a bit like playing cat and mouse. They knew she wanted to do well and could manipulate/read their questions. She knew that they knew that she would do that and so .. you see what I mean? It was almost like a performance test rather than an interview. Plus she was talking about what they were testing for and their criteria, which is more than some are able to get.