I've started applying for a few federal jobs in various agencies...any idea on how long their hiring process usually is? I've been dealing with higher ed for the past 10 years, and they're notoriously slow. I'm just wondering on when I might expect to hear back about federal positions once the position has closed.
Nexa
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NephthysWanderer wrote:
7
of 9 or x 6?
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
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― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Molasses slow. They'll take a long time to sift through applications, call you to do a screening interview, call you again to come in for an interview.
Then there's the background check.
Then there's the background check.
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Samira wrote:
Molasses slow. They'll take a long time to sift through applications, call you to do a screening interview, call you again to come in for an interview.
Then there's the background check.
Then there's the background check.
Okie dokie, thanks. *sigh* I just want a job where someone will pay me in money that I can use to pay bills. That is evidently too much to ask!
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Nexa wrote:
NephthysWanderer wrote:
7
of 9 or x 6?
Nexa
x 6. Duh.
It depends on the agency, on the position, and the number of applicants.
Took me a 2 months to be hired as a clerk for the FBI back in 1976.
Just get your name on the lists.
Took me a 2 months to be hired as a clerk for the FBI back in 1976.
Just get your name on the lists.
Nexa wrote:
I just want a job where someone will pay me in money that I can use to pay bills.
Nexa
Nexa
What do they pay you in now, waffles?
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I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
What do they pay you in now, waffles?
Lobster shells and dropped moose antlers. It was just lobster shells, but she got a raise.
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I've started applying for a few federal jobs in various agencies...any idea on how long their hiring process usually is? I've been dealing with higher ed for the past 10 years, and they're notoriously slow. I'm just wondering on when I might expect to hear back about federal positions once the position has closed.
Nexa
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Think state government, then add 4 weeks. And no, I am not exagerating.
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I had no problems getting hired within about 2 weeks of applying, but I was hired under an Emergency Hire status used to bypass certain budgetary limits.
10 months, but that's in Belgium, no idea if the US would be faster or slower.
I'd give it at least a few months. A background check can take 6-8, though, depending where you're working and how long it takes you to fill the damn thing out. Also, certain agencies are quicker than others. For example, if you're applying for anything having to do with Dept of Interior, you should expect to hear from them around Christmas. The only work under duress.
Getting a Fed job takes forever. And a Fed job that is not critical or high priority, yet requires a TS clearance or background check takes forever and a day.
Only if you are fast-tracked due to a skill set that is rare and in precious need will you see expeditiousness. Due to the layers upon layers of bureaucracy each position must be signed off, interviews must be given, weight must be assigned to vets, ethnicity, handicap, and sex, and suitable time must be allotted for present employees to apply. Finally, when all other requirements are met, attention must be paid to where you are in the fiscal year. Many hirings don't occur until the new fiscal calendar, and even sometimes that doesn't help if a budget stalemate is in effect.
However, once you are safely esconced in your Fed job and past the probation period, you are imbedded like a tick in a dog's a$$ for all intents and purposes. It takes nigh to a Congressional hearing to fire or eliminate a Federal employee.
Just as anecdotal evidence of what I'm saying, as a kid I used to lifeguard on military bases. We'd have to apply in November for a job that opened in late May-- and we wouldn't officially know we had the job until early May. And this, of course, was only through the base's OTWO (Onbase Temporary Work Office), the redheaded ******* child to real Federal employment.
Good luck, Nexa. I hope you have other work lined up while you wait.
Totem
Only if you are fast-tracked due to a skill set that is rare and in precious need will you see expeditiousness. Due to the layers upon layers of bureaucracy each position must be signed off, interviews must be given, weight must be assigned to vets, ethnicity, handicap, and sex, and suitable time must be allotted for present employees to apply. Finally, when all other requirements are met, attention must be paid to where you are in the fiscal year. Many hirings don't occur until the new fiscal calendar, and even sometimes that doesn't help if a budget stalemate is in effect.
However, once you are safely esconced in your Fed job and past the probation period, you are imbedded like a tick in a dog's a$$ for all intents and purposes. It takes nigh to a Congressional hearing to fire or eliminate a Federal employee.
Just as anecdotal evidence of what I'm saying, as a kid I used to lifeguard on military bases. We'd have to apply in November for a job that opened in late May-- and we wouldn't officially know we had the job until early May. And this, of course, was only through the base's OTWO (Onbase Temporary Work Office), the redheaded ******* child to real Federal employment.
Good luck, Nexa. I hope you have other work lined up while you wait.
Totem
Oh, and forever = 6 months from the closing date. Minimum.
Forever + a day = 10 months to as much as a year and a half. Worse, there's no way to truly know where you are in the hiring process even when you know they have selected you.
Totem
Forever + a day = 10 months to as much as a year and a half. Worse, there's no way to truly know where you are in the hiring process even when you know they have selected you.
Totem
Totem wrote:
Getting a Fed job takes forever. And a Fed job that is not critical or high priority, yet requires a TS clearance or background check takes forever and a day.
Only if you are fast-tracked due to a skill set that is rare and in precious need will you see expeditiousness. Due to the layers upon layers of bureaucracy each position must be signed off, interviews must be given, weight must be assigned to vets, ethnicity, handicap, and sex, and suitable time must be allotted for present employees to apply. Finally, when all other requirements are met, attention must be paid to where you are in the fiscal year. Many hirings don't occur until the new fiscal calendar, and even sometimes that doesn't help if a budget stalemate is in effect.
However, once you are safely esconced in your Fed job and past the probation period, you are imbedded like a tick in a dog's a$$ for all intents and purposes. It takes nigh to a Congressional hearing to fire or eliminate a Federal employee.
Just as anecdotal evidence of what I'm saying, as a kid I used to lifeguard on military bases. We'd have to apply in November for a job that opened in late May-- and we wouldn't officially know we had the job until early May. And this, of course, was only through the base's OTWO (Onbase Temporary Work Office), the redheaded ******* child to real Federal employment.
Good luck, Nexa. I hope you have other work lined up while you wait.
Totem
Only if you are fast-tracked due to a skill set that is rare and in precious need will you see expeditiousness. Due to the layers upon layers of bureaucracy each position must be signed off, interviews must be given, weight must be assigned to vets, ethnicity, handicap, and sex, and suitable time must be allotted for present employees to apply. Finally, when all other requirements are met, attention must be paid to where you are in the fiscal year. Many hirings don't occur until the new fiscal calendar, and even sometimes that doesn't help if a budget stalemate is in effect.
However, once you are safely esconced in your Fed job and past the probation period, you are imbedded like a tick in a dog's a$$ for all intents and purposes. It takes nigh to a Congressional hearing to fire or eliminate a Federal employee.
Just as anecdotal evidence of what I'm saying, as a kid I used to lifeguard on military bases. We'd have to apply in November for a job that opened in late May-- and we wouldn't officially know we had the job until early May. And this, of course, was only through the base's OTWO (Onbase Temporary Work Office), the redheaded ******* child to real Federal employment.
Good luck, Nexa. I hope you have other work lined up while you wait.
Totem
Oh my job is mine for as long as I want it. I just...don't want it, haha. Thanks!
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
I had an interview, got home and they called asking if I wanted the position. They were in desperate need for a help desk/systems support person. Guess it's good to be a contractor. They did my background check and took my finger prints during my 2nd week there :)
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