CIA's Top Recruiter on How the Agency Finds Its Spies

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell leads a rare interview with CIA's Chief of Talent Acquisition, Sheronda Dorsey, who describes how the agency finds, trains and retains its global network of employees. Dorsey, an agency veteran of nearly three decades, describes her own experience climbing the CIA's ranks as a young black female, and tells Morell how the CIA is working to boost diversity within its ranks and leadership today. She also shares the top qualifying and disqualifying factors for candidates who apply.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.5	I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute
0:12.8	rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-blooded killers you
0:18.1	read about in the news.
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0:26.5	Download the app today.
0:29.0	This is the Intelligence Matters Podcast with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:33.8	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:38.2	When we look for talent, we start thinking about what do we need now and what do we need
0:43.2	in the future.
0:44.2	This is not just a career.
0:45.5	It's a calling, and it is truly a calling to be at CIA.
0:52.3	Diversity.
0:53.3	How's the agency doing on that front?
0:55.3	Diversity is very important to the agency.
0:57.1	We are making great strides just having named our first female director.
1:03.9	I am proud to say that we have taken the right steps.
1:06.9	We'll be able to rest on our laurels, and we still have much more work to do.
1:13.8	Shoranda Dorsi is the chief of talent acquisition at the Central Intelligence Agency.
1:18.3	In that job, she oversees the recruitment and onboarding of CIA's newest officers.
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