Don’t Blab About Your Applications
If you followed our earlier advice, you have applied to multiple agencies for multiple positions. Good job.
Now, do not fall into the trap that so many others do and talk about their many applications. “I am going to be an intel officer,” “I am going to work at Langley,” “I am going to work in counterterrorism.”
All these sound cool, but keep your aspirations to yourself, or at minimum very general, i.e. “I want to work for the government.”
This is imperative as you will be asked during your interviews and eventual polygraph. If you are boasting about your possible career in the IC, you probably shouldn’t be working in the IC.
