Recruited out of high school? Wtf?
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TRinzler — 11 years ago(May 21, 2014 07:11 AM)
Like someone already said, the younger they are, the easier they are to mold.
They'd recruit from pre-school if it was allowed
Also, anyone sane with half a brain will eventually become either disillusioned or burnt out and quit (unless they rise rapidly enough to avoid the frontlines and the agency considers them important enough to make it 'worth their while' to stick around).
With such a high attrition rate it makes sense to recruit as early as possible as you never know when your assets are going to walk -
murad23 — 9 years ago(May 19, 2016 08:55 AM)
Wrong. Certain people with extreme high language acquisition aptitude (testing is done with a three day test by using an entirely artificial language) as well as other innate skills can in a some case of recruitment be recruited while they apply to school, and for example offered scholarships not different than ROTC.
The OP is simply a moron who doesn't know this is common (in fact the rule) for ROTC, West Point, the Naval Academy and would be for CIA in some small number of cases certain talents the CIA might specifically need.
What if she had high language acquisition skills, And/or say had a dad or mom who had had a government posting in Pakistan or the Middle East and spent six or seven years there as a child and knew those languages natively? -
csteve67 — 12 years ago(September 21, 2013 10:17 AM)
just because YOU or people of YOUR "ilk" in HS were not/did not show the where with all for a CIA teen opportunity does not mean other did not.
relaxI hope you know I am just having a bit of fun with you
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Franny25 — 12 years ago(November 02, 2013 07:41 PM)
Students work summers at the CIA while they are in college. It's a very good job besides a hell of a future if you're interested in that life. Some students are foreign service brats used to a more adventurous life than the typical American.
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Redart27 — 12 years ago(January 04, 2014 10:41 AM)
good point Jacque and crooked_spoons. ROTC, sports scholarships, West Point same thing. Perhaps the CIA also offers scholarships to students who test well, demonstrate certain abilities that would make them ideal analysts. Only we don't hear much about it because, after all, it's the CIA.
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glock78 — 12 years ago(March 01, 2014 08:51 AM)
Military or sports concentrates on one very simple marker - physical ability.
They are both looking for manual labor with decent hand-eye coordination.
Running with balls, running with guns same thing.
Taking a gamble that a physically capable teenager will remain so for several years after recruitment is a pretty safe bet.
ON THE OTHER HAND
Taking a look at a hormonally unstable and mentally, emotionally and physically incomplete human and betting it will be a good analyst and someone you can trust with government secrets
Well, actually since I think that we need more Snowdens that's a brilliant idea and all alphabet soup agencies all around the world should definitely do more of that.
In fact They should start recruiting them while still in kindergarten. -
joegerardi-1 — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 06:57 PM)
Running with balls, running with guns same thing.
That's all you think the military does? There are only 2 professions not offered in the military. One is farming. Work out what the other is.
They recruit many, many young men and women out of HS. How do you think people get to Annapolis, The Air Force Academy, or West Point? They're ALL colleges, and their cadets are recruited in their Sophomore/Junior years.
They're recruited to be engineers, pilots, ship's captains, management, (officers) nurses, language specialists, intelligence specialists, computer technicians, thousands of things.
Finally, she never said she didn't go to college, only that they recruited her out of HS. The might have paid for her college with the agreement that she work for them afterwards, and she took to the job
Some people believe in protecting the country, even if it's a dirty, terrible job to do so.
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jake-ryan1968 — 11 years ago(May 20, 2014 07:05 PM)
true. The Intel agencies scout for aptitude - military does too. sometimes they troll using magazine articles, another way is through basic aptitude tests selecting on traits for high electronic, language, mechanical, etc skills. it works. but that doesn't mean other traits like a dependency on drugs won't spoil the catch.
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RussellDunn — 12 years ago(January 18, 2014 07:48 PM)
Funny question the OP posed. It reminds me of something that happened when I was a senior in high school.
I had to take a social studies class in government in order to graduate. I wound up taking it in the last semester. My teacher came in the first day and said,"I got all of you in the palm of my hand. Reason being is that if you don't pass this class then YOU DON'T GRADUATE. YOU WILL BE IN SUMMER SCHOOL. YOU DON'T GO TO COLLEGE. MOMMY AND DADDY WILL BE PISSED. GET IT?" He went on to lay down the law so to speak: Mandatory attendance, good conduct, active participation, assignments turned in on time. ect. He actually was an easy going teacher on a personal level and his door was always open if we needed help.
One day, we were discussing current events and the subject of the CIA came up and he said,"I'm in the CIA." The response from my classmates and myself was one of disbelief. He went on and said,"I am. I'm here to spot potential recruits."
So maybe the idea of recruiting out of high school isn't as far fetched as one would think.
One thing about this teacher. Like I said he was easy going on a personal level. But he made us learn what he was teaching. And he was sharp as a tack and smart as hell. We all respected him for that.