Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but my last job was in gov contracting (think Booz Allen Hamilton type of place) and I’m wondering if I’m allowed to 1) list the agency I worked with/for as a staff aug on my resume and 2) share the name of the agency in interviews….? I wasn’t working with CIA, and I was not doing top secret cleared work or anything, and I am not disclosing any sensitive work I did in my resume bullets. Can I mention client name or should I just say “federal client?”

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Wow - some of these responses are bizarre.

I've done Federal work for 25+ years and ALWAYS post the name of the Agency or Department I've worked for on my resume or LinkedIn as well as the work because everyone RECRUITS based not only on your track record and skill set, but what kind of network you've built.

My biggest repeat clients are DS/DSS inside of DoS, a bunch of parts of Commerce with three turns at NOAA and probably every CoCOM DoD has (sorry, won't EVER refer to them as DoW) as well as a bunch of other DoD components. Most parts of DoJ and DHS with most prominent being three projects inside USCG in the past dozen years.

I even post the AGENCY or DEPT logos on my LinkedIn profile, not the prime or sub I worked for because (AGAIN) people are interested in who you have worked with and the connections your have in the shop

Unless you have been signed to something that EXPLICITLY says you CANNOT say who your terminal client is (e.g. you just say "BAH" not BAH + say, USDA then there is no reason to leave off the name of the client or not discuss them by name in an interview - especially if you aren't working on the high side on anything considered "sensitive"

My projects have gotten national news coverage so since all my work is easily "discoverable" and in the public domain I don't know why anyone would say that it's the normal standard to NOT talk about who you worked with, via whatever consultancy you were retained by

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Unless they approved you disclosing, no. There are confidentiality clauses you would have signed as an employee and that would also have been in the contracts between the company and the relevant agency.

In consulting work, the best approach is: Don’t disclose the client’s name without their permission. You can provide a vague description of the client and provide generic description of the work you did.
EXAMPLE: At an office within the broad DOD umbrella, I analyzed and provided solutions to complex architecture challenges.
Because DoD is a huge organization, you can mention them without giving a clue who you really worked for and describing “complex challenges “ you make it sound like difficult work but you don’t give specifics.

If it’s not cleared work, you are free to list the client but not the work itself. I work in classified spaces and all the resumes I see list the client, high level work and what level of existing clearance they have.

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