By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government wants to hire about 1,600 Border Patrol agents by Sept. 30 to fill vacancies across the country. Applications will be accepted at USAJobs until May 31. There are currently about 20,000 agents assigned across 6,000 miles of border land. Applicants must be under the age of 37 and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey said the bureau plans to hire 1,000 people by Oct. 1 – a move meant to fill some of the 2,500 vacancies. “I’m looking to hire 1,000 people to start to fill those almost 2,500 vacancies that we have – hundreds of special agents and intelligence analysts to restock…
By Amanda Palleschi Government Executive The FBI needs to develop a long-term strategy for filling counterterrorism division vacancies, a government watchdog found. Although the FBI has made some progress addressing a 40 percent vacancy rate — first reported in 2005 — in certain parts of its counterterrorism division, the bureau has yet to establish sufficient…
