The CIA publishes calls for employment to diversify its workforce

Washington – The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched a new Internet portal on Monday to attract personnel from diverse backgrounds to diversify the main US spy agency.

The days when CIA agents were white men graduating from the country’s elite universities are long gone. Today, the director of the agency is female and the five branches of the entity have directors, such as science and technology, operations and technological innovation.

But while the agency has spent years trying to diversify its workforce, intelligence agencies are lagging far behind other public entities when it comes to minority representation. By receiving thousands of applications each year, the CIA is looking to ramp up its efforts to ensure that its workforce reflects the country’s demographic makeup.

The new website includes links to available jobs with their salaries and qualifications, sections on what it means to work for the agency, and a streamlined process for finding work there. You can access it here.

“A lot has changed since the day I applied for a job by simply sending a letter in an envelope that said ‘CIA, Washington, DC,'” said agency director Gina Haspel, who joined in 1985. a statement, which he hopes the new website will arouse the interest of citizens and give them a sense of the “dynamic environment that awaits them here”.

Haspel has made recruiting one of her top priorities since she became the first woman to run the agency in May 2018. Since then, the CIA has started advertising on streaming services, launched an Instagram account and a portal that makes it difficult to identify any person providing information to the agency as well as anyone who has access to that information.

Last year, the CIA appointed for the first time a director of Spanish community relations, Ilka Rodriguez-Diaz, a veteran of more than three decades to the agency who joined after attending a CIA job fair at Nueva Trui.

“The CIA was never on my radar,” Rodriguez-Diaz wrote in an op-ed for the Miami Herald after receiving his assignment in October. “I didn’t even think I was the ‘profile’ they were looking for. After all, the only spies I saw on television were white men from exclusive universities in the United States, not Latinas from New Jersey. Still, I sought advice from my expert advisor, my mother. She replied, ‘You don’t lose anything by going’, so I went to the fair and the rest, as they say, is history ”.

According to a demographic report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in fiscal year 2019, 61% of intelligence professionals were male and 39% female, of all U.S. spy agencies, including the CIA.