I agree that all hiring is shit and there are multiple reasons why, but federal hiring is next level hard. The last person I hired took five months from job offer to butt in the seat and she was a current federal employee. The positions on my team generally require a clearance so if I were to hire someone off the street, and my commander did not approve an interim clearance I could be looking at a year between job offer and butt in seat.
Then there is the grading problems once that is solved the step issues start on the GS payband. The fastest I’ve ever experienced is 120 day from offer to on boarding and that was for a person at the existing grade with the correct clearance.
The even more fun part is I may wait a month from the job closing before I even get a list of candidates so you’d think that HR had prequalified that list but that’s not the case. Once I receive the list than can have triple digit candidates I have three weeks to screen, interview, and select. My top three then go to HR to see if they’re actually qualified.
If I elect to hire someone that is not in a preference category I at best need to write a justification at worst I need to reject all and repost the job.
There are authorities that can expedite the process but those apply to very few job series.
And even with all that bullshit it’s probably more expedited than getting a job at your local 7/11 because everything has to go through a shitty hiring firm who likes to play stupid fuck mind games. Seriously I’ve been looking for even a part time job in my area and frankly speaking I’m lucky if I get rejected. I’m at least partly convinced I’m getting auto-shitcanned because I got into the good habit of separating my online identity and my real identity so when their programs look for me they come up blank.
Ain’t your fault, damned economy has been dying since before I was born and finally started to fail when I got into the job market back in 2019. Point is all this shit is coming to a head and it’s just most obvious in how bad it is to even get to the interview stage, hell I don’t even think it would naturally be this bad normally it’s just that every dipshit and their dog adopted the same dogshit practices around COVID making it so much worse.
I agree that all hiring is shit and there are multiple reasons why, but federal hiring is next level hard. The last person I hired took five months from job offer to butt in the seat and she was a current federal employee. The positions on my team generally require a clearance so if I were to hire someone off the street, and my commander did not approve an interim clearance I could be looking at a year between job offer and butt in seat.
Then there is the grading problems once that is solved the step issues start on the GS payband. The fastest I’ve ever experienced is 120 day from offer to on boarding and that was for a person at the existing grade with the correct clearance.
The even more fun part is I may wait a month from the job closing before I even get a list of candidates so you’d think that HR had prequalified that list but that’s not the case. Once I receive the list than can have triple digit candidates I have three weeks to screen, interview, and select. My top three then go to HR to see if they’re actually qualified.
If I elect to hire someone that is not in a preference category I at best need to write a justification at worst I need to reject all and repost the job.
There are authorities that can expedite the process but those apply to very few job series.
And even with all that bullshit it’s probably more expedited than getting a job at your local 7/11 because everything has to go through a shitty hiring firm who likes to play stupid fuck mind games. Seriously I’ve been looking for even a part time job in my area and frankly speaking I’m lucky if I get rejected. I’m at least partly convinced I’m getting auto-shitcanned because I got into the good habit of separating my online identity and my real identity so when their programs look for me they come up blank.
I firmly fucking hate all of this shit.
I’m sorry you’re having these issue’s.
Ain’t your fault, damned economy has been dying since before I was born and finally started to fail when I got into the job market back in 2019. Point is all this shit is coming to a head and it’s just most obvious in how bad it is to even get to the interview stage, hell I don’t even think it would naturally be this bad normally it’s just that every dipshit and their dog adopted the same dogshit practices around COVID making it so much worse.