Terms of accepting an employment offer would be obtaining a secret security clearance. I’ve never done one of these before. Can someone please provide some background as to how this works and exactly what they’re looking for? Also, wondering if a drug test would be involved?

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Assuming you’re in the US: you’ll need to have a lot of detailed personal information ready. Addresses, dates at those addresses, dates of employment, addresses and contact info of friends and relatives, references, etc. it can be intense. Depending on the level of clearance those people you list might be interviewed regarding your character. I recommend assuming a drug test will happen.

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They will want to know everything about you. Every address you've lived at for x amount of years, every job you've had. They'll want to know friends/partners/room mates. They'll pull your credit and for every debt you have you have to explain why you have it and how you plan to take care of it. The FBI will interview your friends and family so be prepared to get calls that "some federal agent asked me a bunch of questions about you" from friends and family. The FBI will sit you down and interview you as well and ask you about every point you have on the application (E-QIP). As long as you're honest and don't have a ton of skeletons in your closet you'll be fine. If you are lucky your job will give you an interim clearance, which means you get a less involved review and get limited access to start work while waiting on the full clearance. So if you're at say a military base you'll have to be escorted and watched at any place that has secret information.

Hard to tell how long these take. I had a clearance investigation back in 2015 that took years because the organization that does personnel for the feds got hacked. But once you do get that clearance you become a valuable commodity.

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