When I was a kid, I sometimes had the feeling that I was being watched. The adults told me it was all in my head. Today, I get the same feeling. This time, it’s not my imagination. Big Brother is watching.
It appears his eyesight is getting ever keener.
Take, for example, the National Security Agency. The spy agency is currently on one of its largest hiring sprees in 30 years, according to The Washington Times, and is actively recruiting laid-off Big Tech workers.
It makes sense if you’re the NSA. International intelligence gathering is essential, and so long as the NSA stays within that realm, they’re a necessary asset for national security.
But it is more than a bit worrisome when the NSA starts actively reaching out to technology workers through social media outlets like LinkedIn and job boards such as Glassdoor. That’s what they started doing last fall when word got out that Big Tech companies like Meta and Amazon were getting rid of tens of thousands of skilled workers.
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NSA senior talent management strategist Christine Parker said that the agency took notice of the layoff predictions and jumped at the opportunity, in an interview with the Times.
“NSA started reaching out through LinkedIn, through some of our career boards, specifically sending messages to people that we thought might be linked to some companies that either were in the news saying they are going to lay off or were predicted to be laid off,” Parker said. “Just kind of let them know that we’re here and that we have this robust, ongoing hiring program.”
Parker said nearly 30,000 people looked at NSA’s job postings and about 2,000 people applied.
Molly Moore, NSA deputy director of workforce support activities, said that the agency intends to hire 3,000 more employees to be stationed throughout the country from Washington D.C. to Hawaii and numerous places in between.
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