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REVISED CAREER TRAINING PROGRAM
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The present Career Training Program
(CTP)
can be adapted,
through adjustments
to the current
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Program to changing Agency requirements.
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The adjustments to the Program are based on
the following assumptions:
a.
DDO participation will continue for the short
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trainees for FY 1978 and FY 1979.
b.
DDI requirements will remain at approximately
the current level.
c.
The DDA and DDS§T will utilize the CTP as the
prime means of accomplishing in-depth orientation to
the Agency for a modest number of carefully selected
junior professionals
d.
The CTP will remain small and highly selective
and will continue to supplement, but not replace, direct
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hiring.
Candidates will normally be between 23 and 33
years of age, with exceptions made on a case-by-case
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The revised Program will be structured
according to the following considerations:
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Objective
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The Program will provide outstanding young
profess ionals ->whether recruited, externally or intemally--
with a solid, iftxderstanding of how the Agency works and
interacts with the Intelligence Community.
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Means
The Program will give in-depth orientation by
means of training courses
and on-the-job work assignments.
. This approach presumes participation by and introduction
to
all' directorates during the "classroom" part of the
cycle..
It requires
the directorates’
full and willing
participation during the work assignment phase as well.
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The amount of shills,
interpersonal and conceptual
training,
apart from the Operations Course for DDO
trainees, will be limited.
Interim on-the-job assign-
ments will be tailored to maximize both the trainees'
orientation to appropriate directorates and the benefits
to the participating offices
c.
Selection
Final selection of DDO and DDI trainees will
continue to be made by CTP consultation with directorate
representatives.
Selectees for these two directorates
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will consist primarily of external candidates.
DDA and DDS§T trainees will consist primarily
of internal candidates who will be nominated to the
Program by the directorates.
Selection in all
cases will require
a judgment
by the Chief,
CTP,
that the young professional has the
potential to become
a senior manager in his field
within the Agency and is
capable of becoming an intel-
ligence officer with the scope and breadth of capability
implied in that
term.
Internal candidates will be selected from the
directorates’ nominees who have served in the Agency a
sufficient time to have developed a commitment to a
career in their respective career services.
The inclusion into CTP of qualified minority
applicants will remain a top priority.
d.
Frequency,
Duration,
Size
Two programs a year will be run starting in
January and June of each year.
Training for the DD0-
bound CTs will continue to be approximately a year in
length;
the program for DDI,
DDA,
and DDS§T trainees
will be approximately nine months.
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candid
total approximately
Individual classes will consist of approxi-
Hcandidates for each directorate and will
oximately
per class.
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Content
The formal training portion of the current
Program will be adjusted to add orientation devoted to
the functions of the DDA and DDS£jT.
The increased
overview encompassing information about all the
directorates will provide the necessary familiarity to
the whole Agency to all trainees.
The revised CTP will continue to incorporate
two interim assignments to provide on-the-job training
which will be characterized by flexibility and adapta-
tion to the needs and prospective career path of each
trainee.
Each interim assignment will last approximately
12 weeks and will be interspersed among the formal
courses.
Traditionally,
DDO- and DDI-bound trainees
serve an interim in each of these directorates;
this
pattern will continue.
DDA-
and DDS§T-bound officers
will have their interim assignments tailored to their
needs and will be assigned intra-directorate and/or
inter-directorate interims as appropriate.
The CTP
will coordinate the DDA interim ass ignments with the
proposed'"?E^nInistfative Directorate Tra ning Trogram
(ADTP)~ to -provide in^depth DDA office orientat ion^and
training.
For DDA-bound CTs who do not need in-depth
DDA training,
regular on-the-job assignments
in or out
of the directorate will be arranged.
The interims of DDS§T candidates will be
handled, in a fashion similar to DDA-bound CTs
in order
to attain the widest possible exposure
to BDS$T func-
tions within the competence of the young officer to
both produce and learn while working outside his "home"
component.
CJP will coordinate these assignments with
the DDS§T training officer to insure that the optimum
assignment
is arranged.
attached.
A summary of the content of the Program
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Administration
The CTP staff will continue to administer the
Program during the selection,
formal training,
and
interim assignment phases.
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Depending on the number of slots allocated to
the CT Program,
OTR is prepared to enter on duty
external candidates
as contract employees.
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positions would suffice to handle the anticipated
DDO and DDI trainees, plus the few externals who may
p.ntpr the DDA and DDS§T.
An anticipated equal number
of internal candidates would remain on
directorate rolls while in the Program.
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