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Oh dear I've been told that my internship interviews don't start in December but in January, and that they wouldn't start until the summer. Could I still squeeze in if this is the disabilities pool?
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Drewski posted:I was involved in a fender bender on my way to work this morning, my first ever. I was in line to get on the base waiting for my turn to proceed and the guy behind me (also stopped) wasn't paying attention and hit the gas, rear ending my car. It ended up being a huge brouhaha, but not because of any reason you'd expect. He called the police and I'm like, "Dude there's almost no damage to my car and I'm not hurt. What's the deal?" Turns out he was our base's plainclothes detective in an unmarked GOV! Man_of_Teflon posted:I love how the locality pay here in Chicago is only slightly less than SF/DC/NYC despite housing being waaaaay cheaper if you are living in a neighborhood not right next to the Loop. Grouchio posted:Oh dear I've been told that my internship interviews don't start in December but in January, and that they wouldn't start until the summer.
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If you want crazy low locality pay try Boston. I turned down an engineering supervisor position because all I could afford was a studio apartment in a bad neighborhood. Everyone in that office that owned a house was in their late 50s and bought like 30 years ago. I have no idea how they're going to fill that position.
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Dr. Quarex posted:That dude is SO going to lose access to the GOV. And then be put on desk duty for a month while taking driving safety courses or something. Hah. He's lucky I'm unhurt. My rear bumper popped back out with minimal damage; it looks like most of the energy was absorbed by my tow hitch than anything else.
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See, the federal government isn't the only employer who can take forever to do things!  
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Dec 9, 2016 00:25
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Obama just changed his recommendation from 1.6 to 2.1% pay raise for 2017!! Thanks Obama! That'll have to last us for 4 years.
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Dec 10, 2016 00:42
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This is starting to veer out of funny jokes territory and into "time to dust off that plan B career path you haven't thought seriously about since 7th grade" land.
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So my agency is going ahead with their plans to hire 800 IT Specialists during the next year. But instead of saying that we need those people to cover our backlog, etc., the execs are now talking about needing the bandwidth to cover security issues related to foreign governments attempting to hack our systems. I'd say they've read the current political climate pretty well.
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Dec 10, 2016 01:27
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I had a WebEx interview with the Patent and Trademark Office. Sounds like they'll be making decisions in mid-January for an early February start. Structured promotion to GS-14 is nice but even then compensation doesn't seem that great.
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Dec 10, 2016 01:30
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Josh Lyman posted:I had a WebEx interview with the Patent and Trademark Office. Sounds like they'll be making decisions in mid-January for an early February start. There's a few patent examiners that hang out in the lawyer and law school thread. They might be worth talking to. I know one makes bonus every quarter and it comes out to pretty good money, especially once you can work from home.
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Maybe this thread should hire a magic job expert person to tell us how to figure out what our extremely weird niche government job skills will allow us to do once all our jobs are eliminated for not being "a person with a gun watching foreigners." "What did you do before?" "Adjudication." "Ugh. Jeeze, And you do not have a law degree? Yeah, just file for unemployment and consider becoming a dealer. Next!"
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Dr. Quarex posted:Maybe this thread should hire a magic job expert person to tell us how to figure out what our extremely weird niche government job skills will allow us to do once all our jobs are eliminated for not being "a person with a gun watching foreigners." That's hitting a little close to home now that the FOIA project I was with has been shitcanned.
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Dec 12, 2016 04:31
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Automation/machine learning is starting to eliminate lots of "skilled" jobs as well, (yes I know this is not yet reflected in the official stats, but trust me it's happening) if you're gonna pivot might as well try something out of left field like show biz or art. If you have any shred of talent this is probably the best time ever to scare yourself shitless and take some big risks. Abandon all your education and career experience and start over, A+ solid BFC advice right here.
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The government is having a fire sale??
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Is it fair to assume the outlook for Park Service jobs and the like is, uh, not great? About to graduate with a degree in Environmental Ed and people in my major (and my friends in wildlife sciences and rec admin and such) usually end up in federal positions, at least for the summer following graduation.
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I imagine every National Park will be turned into a lumber yard or quarry, depending on the location.
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Emergency services is still a career possibility. Always a demand for those.
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Dec 13, 2016 00:46
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Be a political appointee. From the looks of it, no relevant experience required.
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Run for president. Same.
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Dr. Quarex posted:being "a person with a gun watching foreigners." Thankfully this is a large portion of my job
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If the park service didn't want to get wrecked they probably shouldn't have pissed off everyone in Congress by appointing nothing but rapists to supervisor positions.
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Are there any other good online federal job listing resources besides USAJOBS? I'm looking for a change in career and would like to move to Richmond, VA, but almost all the job listings there are for neurosurgeons and other medical professionals... a bit out of my area of expertise. For what it's worth my current professional background is journalism/copy editing/digital so umm... there are days I don't feel like I'm skilled for much of anything. :|
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Ballz posted:Are there any other good online federal job listing resources besides USAJOBS? I'm looking for a change in career and would like to move to Richmond, VA, but almost all the job listings there are for neurosurgeons and other medical professionals... a bit out of my area of expertise. Not quite what you're asking for... But If you're a journalist, especially if you have any foreign policy experience, then the USIC is always hiring, and unlike every other federal department, will probably continue to hire under a Trump administration. And if you like Virgina, hoo boy. Every second block is another ex-CIA private intelligence startup.
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Goodpancakes posted:What is the USIC United States intelligence community. DIA, INR, NSA, CIA, etc. Biggest assets you can bring if you're looking to work as an analyst are language skills and good writing. Seriously, if you can write well and think critically and get through a SF86, it's not a bad gig. And I know for a fact that lots of journalist types get hired, surprisingly enough, again, especially if you have any foreign policy or international relations expertise. Also a masters degree. That's important too, I should add.
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Ballz posted:Are there any other good online federal job listing resources besides USAJOBS? I'm looking for a change in career and would like to move to Richmond, VA, but almost all the job listings there are for neurosurgeons and other medical professionals... a bit out of my area of expertise. There is also IGnet.gov - a lot of Office of Inspector General components post jobs there that aren't listed on USAJobs.
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Is there a way to get anymore feedback from USA Jobs than "Not Referred"? Kinda hard to know what you're loving up when that's all the feedback you get. USA Jobs just feels like pissing in the wind, and I'm getting tired of well meaning relatives suggesting that Agency X or Y is constantly in need of V and Z only to get no feedback other than "not referred"
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I applied for separate Computer Engineer and Electrical Engineer patent examiner postings with the PTO. I received "referred to selecting official" emails for the postings on different days from different recruiters. I had a Skype interview for one of them (don't know which one) 3 weeks ago and was told I'd probably hear back in mid-January. I then received an email last week saying I had been referred to a hiring manager but not selected for the electrical engineer position. Should I assume the Skype interview was for the computer engineer position and I'm still in the running? Edit: Welp, got a referred not selected for the computer engineer position. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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How concerned should I be about lateraling from one agency to another at this moment? I have an offer and they want to onboard me before inauguration. Would suck to go from an irritating job to possibly no job at all.
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I'd lateral. Whats the worst that can happen? https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...0a02_story.html
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I'm looking at the deductions from my most recent paycheck in Employee Express. Does anyone know how Maryland local and state tax deductions are calculated if you're a resident who works in DC? I've poked around on the Maryland Comptroller's website but haven't found anything definitive to answer my question.
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Live in MD, work in DC, pay MD taxes. Source, me. Or officially: http://taxes.marylandtaxes.com/Individual_Taxes/Taxpayer_Assistance/Individual_Tax_FAQs/Income_Tax_FAQs/q7.shtml
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spongeworthy posted:There is also IGnet.gov - a lot of Office of Inspector General components post jobs there that aren't listed on USAJobs. Thanks, I'll check this out. I work in local news so no foreign journalism experience, sadly. For me, it's pretty much Richmond or bust. I don't have any interest in working in the DC beltway. I lived in RVA for years, my wife's from there, it'd be a nice homecoming. I know the Federal Reserve is there, although I dunno if I have any qualifications that they'd be interested in.
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Keep in mind the federal reserve, despite the name, isn't a federal agency and doesn't do personnel through opm.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:I'd lateral. Whats the worst that can happen? Can't decide if this says you better be in place by inauguration day or anyone hired after December 1st can expect to be fired.
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Kolodny posted:Keep in mind the federal reserve, despite the name, isn't a federal agency and doesn't do personnel through opm. Well, the FRS (.Org) is different from the FRB(.Gov). FRB is only DC based, while the FRS reserve banks are scattered across the country. The Board is a self-funded executive agency instead of a legislative one. This means we stay open when Ted Cruz has another sequester hissy fit. And yeah, we only do our recruiting through https://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/
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So do you guys have the same employment package and pay scales the rest of the federal government does or are you special in that way as well?
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sparkmaster posted:So do you guys have the same employment package and pay scales the rest of the federal government does or are you special in that way as well? We don't follow GS scale per se (separate FR scale, available on the website), and I have no idea about what 'normal' gov't employment packages are so I can't say about that, but I've heard we're as good or possibly better in parts. 
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Vorkosigan posted:Well, the FRS (.Org) is different from the FRB(.Gov). FRB is only DC based, while the FRS reserve banks are scattered across the country. The Board is a self-funded executive agency instead of a legislative one. This means we stay open when Ted Cruz has another sequester hissy fit. 
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Promote Accountability and Government Efficiency Actquote:Summary of the Bill Requirements Things will be going down soon. I don't understand why the author of this article is confident that certain measures, like at will employment, won't pass. What's to stop them?
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