NOTE: I am not including any privileged information in this post, so as not to violate the non-disclosure agreement I signed with the agency. Just to clarify, I am a patriot and support the US Intelligence Community.
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I applied sometime last year for "core collector" with the agency:
got contacted for a phone interview,
sent in transcripts and writing samples,
then got invited to a private info session and personal interview
after having been filtered down from about 10,000 applicants and put in a room with 45 other potentials, i then had my personal interview, which went absolutely horribly. one of the role-playing scenarios went bad for me, not to mention that i had no slept the night before because of personal issues....fate is probably what is to blame..
anyways, i received a dreaded letter about a week later saying "your application is no longer under active consideration..."
the exact same letter verbatim that this gentleman received:
http://www.mbajungle.com/magazine.cfm?INC=inc_article.cfm&artid=2010&template=0 My work experience was complicated and I believe that the agency felt that I misrepresented myself on my application with my foreign language proficiency (i.e. 3/5 on arabic when i can understand a good majority, can speak a little bit, but cannnot read or write, but i'm learning)...and I told the interviewer that my (4/5 in german) has gone to 3/5 in recent months because i had not spoken it in some time...he wrote this down enthusiastically. but i wanted to be honest and express my attitude of "candor" with them
Not to mention that I flunked the part about foreign politics, etc...
My questions to the gurus here are:
1. Have I been blacklisted with the agency? Can I ever reapply again? If so, in how long?
2. If I can reapply, should I say that I went through half of the application process before?
3. Do you think a possible reason for my rejection was that my personality type didn't match what they were looking for? At the interview I was extremely introverted and on the defensive during the "role play scenario" (again, not sleeping was the cause for this).
Thanks in advance guys,