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Cake day: June 13th, 2025

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  • 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 that 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.