From The AFP:WASHINGTON (AFP) — Laid-off bankers and anxious students have pushed applications for jobs at the CIA to record highs this year, even though the few jobs available at the agency pay much less than the private sector.
"So far this year we received 90,000 resumes and if we stay at that level we will probably get close to 180,000 resumes" in 2009, said Ron Patrick, an official responsible for recruitment at the CIA.
"That would be the largest number of resumes we've received in a year ever since we kept records of it," he told AFP.
The flood of applications to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia is partly due to an aggressive recruitment campaign, but also being driven by the major economic crisis that has hit the United States, where unemployment reached 9.4 percent in May, the highest rate in 25 years.
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My Comment: Why the assumption that it is because of "recession woes". I just love the obvious bias in this news story.
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