"Best Of" Intelligence Matters: CIA's Top Recruiter Sheronda Dorsey
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this revamped episode of Intelligence Matters — re-released while the world contends with the COVID-19 pandemic and the podcast has temporarily suspended new production — host Michael Michael reflects on a July 2018 conversation with CIA's Chief of Talent Acquisition, Sheronda Dorsey, who explains how the agency finds, trains and retains its global network of employees. Morell offers new perspective on the importance of the work of intelligence agencies during a global health crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:05.5 | Download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel. |
| 0:14.1 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. |
| 0:16.2 | Your mission is ours. |
| 0:18.2 | When we look for talent, we start thinking about what do we need now and what do we need |
| 0:23.1 | in the future. |
| 0:24.1 | This is not just a career, it's a calling, and it is truly a calling to be at CIA. |
| 0:30.9 | Diversity. |
| 0:32.9 | How's the agency doing on that front? |
| 0:34.9 | Diversity is very important to the agency. |
| 0:36.9 | We are making great strides just having named our first female director. |
| 0:43.9 | I am proud to say that we have taken the right steps. |
| 0:46.9 | We'll be can't rest on our laurels and we still have much more work to do. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome to Intelligence Matters. I'm Michael Morel. |
| 0:54.9 | Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we here at Intelligence Matters are trying to do our |
| 0:59.6 | part at social distancing and we are not taping in the studio for the time being. |
| 1:05.4 | We are making progress on remote taping options and hope to be taping new episodes |
| 1:09.5 | again very soon. |
| 1:11.6 | In the meantime, we're going to bring you what you, based on your feedback, have considered |
| 1:15.9 | to be our best of episodes. |
| 1:18.5 | For each of those, we will add some commentary to keep it fresh and up to date. |
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