Dea To Life Hiring Freeze

[natskins]

Drug Enforcement Administration to Hire 200 Special Agents
DEC 27 -- (Washington, DC) – Today, Michele M. Leonhart, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator, announced that the funding provided in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (H.R. 2764), will allow DEA to lift an agency-wide hiring freeze that was instituted in August 2006.
“This is an important and most welcome development,” Leonhart said. “With this much-needed funding, DEA will be able to fill 200 Special Agent positions, as well as many vacant Intelligence Analyst and critical support positions. This legislation sends a strong and encouraging message to all of us at DEA as we continue our worldwide drug law enforcement mission.”
H.R. 2764, which was signed by the President on December 26, 2007, provides funding for fiscal 2008, which began October 1, 2007.

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Good news!

[Mystikal]

200 positions? competition should be nice and stiff.

[Bearcat357]

200 positions? competition should be nice and stiff.

That's an understatement.....

Unless you are on your "A Game" with lots of expereince, lots of schooling (civilian/military/LEO training), language skills, and military time....you will be hard pressed to get hired by them.....

As that's the types of folks that will be applying this go around.....

[Group 29]

If you aren't well along in the DEA application process, don't bet on having a chance at one of these positions. There are a lot of applicants who were on the verge of being hired when the freeze was initiated. They are the ones who will be getting hired.