Candidates with clearances and technical skills

Candidates are never charged a fee at any stage. There is no form on this page and no candidate database to register in. A résumé sent by email, with the details listed below, is read by a recruiter and answered. When a requisition matches, you are told the employer, the program, the location, the engagement type and the compensation before anything is submitted, and nothing is submitted without your agreement.

What to include in a résumé email

Send your résumé to info@recruiterswf.com with these details in the body of the message. Each one answers a question a hiring manager will ask before an interview.

• Clearance level held (Public Trust, Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, or none) and whether it is active or was held within the last two years.
• The month and year of your last investigation, or whether you are enrolled in continuous vetting, and the sponsoring agency or contractor.
• Polygraph status: counterintelligence or full-scope, and the month and year it was taken, if any.
• Your specialty, the technologies you work in daily, and the certifications you hold with their expiration dates.
• Where you live, where you are willing to work on site, and whether you will consider relocation or remote work.
• Availability: your notice period or the date you can start, and whether you are open to contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire.
• The rate or salary you expect, and any citizenship or work-authorization detail an employer would need to know.

What never to send by email

Email is convenient and unencrypted. Please do not send Social Security numbers, dates of birth, passport or driver's license images, SF-86 content, or any classified or controlled information. A recruiter will never ask for those by email. If an employer needs identity documents after an offer, they are provided directly to that employer through its onboarding process. If you send something sensitive by mistake, tell us and we will delete the message.

What happens after you send it

A recruiter reads the résumé and replies. If there is a requisition that fits, the reply proposes a screening call by phone or video that covers your recent work, the terms of the requisition and your expectations. If there is no fit today, the reply says so, and your résumé is kept on file while a realistic prospect of a match exists, as described in the privacy policy.

A submittal includes your résumé and a summary written by the recruiter that maps you to the requisition. You see the employer name, the program, the location and the compensation first. Interviews are scheduled around your current job. Offers are negotiated on your behalf on the terms you set at the start, and no offer is accepted for you.

Engagement models from the candidate's side

On a contract engagement you are employed on a W-2 basis by Recruiters Workforce, or work corp-to-corp through your own entity, and are assigned to the client's program for a defined period at an agreed hourly rate. On a contract-to-hire engagement the same arrangement runs for an evaluation period, after which the employer offers you a permanent position on its own payroll. On a direct hire engagement you join the employer's payroll from the first day, and the employer pays the firm a placement fee. In every case the fee is paid by the employer.

Specialties placed

• Software engineers

  Application, platform and mission software developers for federal programs and commercial products, cleared and non-cleared.

• DevSecOps engineers

  Pipeline, platform and container engineers who build security into delivery on federal and commercial programs.

• Cloud engineers

  Architects and engineers for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud environments, including government regions and FedRAMP platforms.

• Cybersecurity analysts

  Security operations, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management analysts for cleared and commercial environments.

• Information system security officers

  ISSOs and ISSMs who carry a system's authorization, controls evidence and continuous monitoring on federal programs.

• Penetration testers

  Offensive security testers and red team operators for federal and commercial assessments.

• Network engineers

  Routing, switching, security and wide-area network engineers for defense, agency and enterprise networks.

• Systems administrators

  Windows, Linux and virtualization administrators who keep servers, directories and services running on cleared and commercial programs.

• Systems engineers

  Requirements, architecture, integration and test engineers for defense, space and intelligence programs.

• Data engineers

  Pipeline, warehouse and analytics platform engineers for mission data, agency data and commercial products.

• Embedded and RF engineers

  Firmware, FPGA, signal processing and radio frequency engineers for sensors, radios, avionics and spacecraft.

• IT program managers

  Program and project managers who run federal task orders and commercial technology programs to schedule, budget and contract.

• IT support technicians

  Help desk, desktop and field support technicians for installations, agencies, medical centers and enterprises.

• Business analysts

  Requirements, process and product analysts who translate agency and business needs into systems that get built.

Questions candidates ask

Can Recruiters Workforce get me a clearance?

It cannot, and neither can any other private recruiting firm. An investigation is requested by a federal agency or by a cleared contractor that has a contractual need for you to hold access. What a recruiter can do is place you in a position with an employer that will sponsor the investigation, where the program accepts a candidate who is eligible but not yet cleared. The clearance guide explains sponsorship and the timelines involved.

My clearance lapsed after I left a cleared position. Is it still useful?

It may be. Under the current rules an eligibility that was in scope when access ended can generally be reinstated by a new sponsor within a set period after the break in access, without a new investigation, and the guide sets out the rule with its official source. Tell us the month you last held access and the date of your last investigation, and we will tell you which requisitions can use it.

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