IntelligenceCareers

What IntelligenceCareers does

IntelligenceCareers.com is a privately held career services firm founded in 1997 and based in Woodbridge, Virginia. The company operates in the U.S. defense and intelligence recruitment vertical, serving job seekers and employers in specialized domains including C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), national security, and decision sciences. Rather than functioning as a direct transactional job board, IntelligenceCareers acts primarily as a career clearinghouse that aggregates intelligence-community career information, editorial Q&A content, and job alerts, and routes candidates to partner sites—most notably jobzone.billgoldenjobs.com—for actual job application processing.

The company's technology stack is a web-based career platform built on standard content and database infrastructure, with no disclosed proprietary AI, machine learning, or automation capabilities. The product surface consists of career resource articles, a Q&A section, email job alerts delivered via newsletter, and a resume database subscription service. Core content covers resume writing, interview preparation, federal hiring processes, and career transition guidance targeted at defense and intelligence professionals.

IntelligenceCareers operates a multi-revenue-stream business model anchored on three pillars: (1) fee-based personalized career consulting delivered to individual job seekers, (2) custom talent acquisition campaigns executed on behalf of defense and intelligence employers, and (3) subscription access to its resume database for employer clients. The free tier—including general career advice, Q&A content, and email job alerts—functions as a top-of-funnel acquisition mechanism. The company is founder-owned, privately held, and operates with a very small headcount of 1-10 employees per public listings, with no disclosed funding, investors, or institutional backers.

Name

IntelligenceCareers

Legal name

IntelligenceCareers.com

Website

https://intelligencecareers.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

IntelligenceCareers.com is a privately held, founder-operated career clearinghouse founded in 1997 that aggregates U.S. defense and intelligence job information and routes candidates to partner sites. It monetizes via individual consulting fees, employer resume database subscriptions, and custom talent acquisition campaigns.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruiting and Career Advisory Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Career Exploration, Interest/Skills Assessment & Pathway Planning (EDAFAMAK)

Keywords

• Defense intelligence recruiting
• National security careers
• Career advisory services
• Talent acquisition campaigns
• Decision sciences jobs

Headquarters

HQ city

Woodbridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Career Counseling Services: Fee-based personalized career consulting sessions where advisors discuss skills, career goals, and potential career paths. The company also provides free career advice resources to users.
2. Talent Acquisition Campaigns: Custom talent acquisition campaigns for employers and agencies. While not a traditional job board, the company creates customized campaigns to help employers with recruiting challenges.
3. Resume Database Services: Resume storage in database for potential matching with job opportunities. Resumes are shared with employers only if relevant to their recruiting challenge and with user permission.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

IntelligenceCareers.com is a career information clearinghouse that connects skilled professionals with job opportunities in the intelligence, decision sciences, C5ISR, and national security sectors. The platform directs job seekers to a partner job board (Jobzone by BillGoldenJobs), provides free career advising resources, offers fee-based personalized career consulting sessions, and creates custom talent acquisition campaigns for employers and agencies.

Product overview

IntelligenceCareers.com operates as a jobs and careers info clearinghouse focused on intelligence, decision sciences, and national security sectors. The platform consists of a job postings and search system (via external partner Jobzone by BillGoldenJobs), combined with free career advising resources including resume building, interview preparation, career planning, and networking opportunities. For employers, the company offers custom talent acquisition campaigns and resume database access for matching candidates. The core offering is the integration of job search functionality with career development services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Job Postings / Job Search Clearinghouse A career information clearinghouse that connects skilled professionals with job opportunities in intelligence, decision sciences, C5ISR, and national security sectors, directing users to the partner Jobzone by BillGoldenJobs portal for actual job applications.
• Career Advice / Career Q&A Resource Hub A free resource hub providing career advising, resume building guidance, interview preparation, career planning, job search assistance, networking opportunities, and personal branding content for professionals in intelligence and decision sciences.
• Personalized Career Consulting

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Jobzone.billgoldenjobs.comcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJobzone.billgoldenjobs.com is the partner job portal where IntelligenceCareers.com directs job seekers for actual job search, resume registration, and applications. IntelligenceCareers operates as a clearinghouse while this partner handles the transactional job board functionality. Users can search jobs and apply through the partner platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ClearanceJobs: ClearanceJobs is the dominant online job board dedicated to professionals with U.S. government security clearances. It is the most direct competitor to IntelligenceCareers' niche, competing for both cleared job seekers and defense/intelligence employers on essentially identical SEO and employer-campaign terms.
• Military.com: Military.com is a large veteran and military-career platform with job listings, career advice, and content for service members and veterans. Its careers vertical overlaps with IntelligenceCareers' content-and-jobs model for defense-adjacent job seekers.
• RecruitMilitary: RecruitMilitary runs job fairs, a job board, and career resources targeting veterans and transitioning military personnel — the same talent pool that flows into defense, intelligence, and C5ISR careers. It competes directly for both candidates and employer brand attention in the defense hiring space.

Emerging players

• Hire Our Heroes: Hire Our Heroes is a smaller veteran and military-spouse career placement organization with events and employer introductions. It overlaps with IntelligenceCareers in mission and target candidate pool but operates at smaller scale and via in-person events rather than content/SEO.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn dominates professional recruiting broadly and is heavily used by defense and intelligence employers and cleared candidates. Its scale and direct-hire messaging make it a structural competitor to any specialized recruiter's value proposition.
• SAIC: SAIC is a large government services and IT integrator that recruits cleared engineers, analysts, and cyber professionals — directly competing with IntelligenceCareers for the same employer-side attention and cleared candidate mindshare.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen Hamilton is a major defense and intelligence contractor with a large in-house recruiting engine and careers brand that targets the same cleared-candidate pool. It represents the broad-incumbent threat of large contractors absorbing candidate flow directly, bypassing external recruiters.
• Indeed: Indeed is the largest generalist job board and aggregates a substantial share of defense and intelligence job listings. It competes on breadth, SEO, and employer self-serve ad spend, which can erode specialized job-board differentiation.
• CACI International: CACI is a large defense and intelligence services contractor that recruits aggressively for cleared technical, cyber, and intelligence roles. As a broad incumbent it competes for the same candidate pool and often hires its own sourcing capability in-house.

Others

• USAJobs: USAJobs is the U.S. government's official federal job portal and a primary destination for intelligence-community candidates. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive because most of IntelligenceCareers' content focuses on private-sector cleared roles, but it competes for candidate attention.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/IntelligenceCareers
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/intelligencecareers-com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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