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Department of Homeland Security Hosting Virtual Job Fair!
Dec 14th
DHS–The Department is using special hiring authorities to fill up to 1,000 skilled cyber specialist
positions over three years across many Department components.
http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/careers/cyberjobfair/
Our workforce is committed to assuring the security, resiliency and reliability of the nation’s information technology and communications infrastructure. Be a part of our team! We need your expertise in:
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At the Department, you’ll work hard and you’ll be pushed because the stakes are high. And, you will have an immediate opportunity to serve and make a difference. We need our best and brightest, our finest computer scientists and engineers, analysts, mathematicians, and innovative thinkers. We need you, your nation needs you.
Salaries range from $73,000 to $153,000 and the jobs are at the GS 12-15 levels. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance. More information about specific job opportunities is available when you apply. Acceptance of applications will close when sufficient applications have been received.
Follow the steps above and begin your exciting cybersecurity career!
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 helping Veterans get jobs
Nov 9th
Activision Blizzard, which produces the popular Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk franchises, said its Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) will support other groups that assist veterans with their careers.
Unemployment may have hit double digits in the nation last week, but for veterans, finding a job has always had its challenges. The unemployment rate among people who served in the military since 2001 was 11.6 percent in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Other government and private studies show that the percentage of unemployed veterans has been historically higher than the percentage among civilians. Eighteen percent of veterans who left the military in the past one to three years were unemployed, according to a 2008 Department of Veterans Affairs employment survey.
Of those veterans who had found work, 25 percent earned less than $21,840 per year, the VA study said. Fifty-eight percent of recent veterans worked in the private sector and 36 percent had government jobs, according to the study.
“The joblessness rate that [veterans] should have should be far less than the national average, not more,” said Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick. “How do you expect people to actually join the military if when they leave the military they can’t integrate back into the free market they’re supposed to be protecting?”
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