84: Retired Special Agent Steers Job-Seekers Through Maze of Security Clearances

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Crane began his career as a U.S. Special Agent in 1985 with the Defense Investigative Service, conducting thousands of investigations for U.S. government security clearances. Through his bestselling book, Access Granted, he helps job seekers and others gain clearance for government jobs. Increasingly, jobs in government and business require security clearances. While helping young people and others navigate the process, he realized how much he loves being of service. In active retirement, he continues to share his expertise and has branched out into many new areas of service with children, youth and community.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.1	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.0	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Kevin Crane. Welcome, Kevin.
0:33.3	Thank you, Don, for having me.
0:35.3	Quick question, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:39.2	Oh, I absolutely am, Don.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:41.3	We want to hear the whole story.
0:43.4	Retired Special Agent Kevin Crane began his career as a U.S. Special Agent in 1985 with
0:51.2	the Defense Investigative Service, which became the Federal Investigative Service under the Office of Personal Management.
0:58.1	During his 21 years of service, Kevin conducted thousands of in-depth investigations for U.S. government security clearances.
1:06.0	Prior to his retirement in 2006, Kevin had worked eight years as an assistant special agent in charge of the
1:13.1	Wrightstown, New Jersey investigative field office. He is the best-selling author of Access Granted,
1:19.7	which offers help on gaining clearance for government jobs. Well, Kevin, that's a pithy summation of
1:24.7	your career up to this point. Take a few minutes and tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited.
1:31.9	Well, I'm excited right now.
1:33.6	I've actually done a bunch of television news shows.
1:37.4	I've been fortunate to be on ABC, NBC.
1:41.3	I've done two Fox News television shows recently, and I have an upcoming show with CBS. I'm
1:48.5	working with some local colleges to see if we can actually set up some speaking engagements,
1:54.5	some seminars, some workshops. So we're doing some of that type of engagement. Once that's all
2:00.7	set up, I plan on doing a series of DVDs to follow up with some more
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