Do you think USAJOBS website is a joke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have applied for hundreds of jobs over the past 6 years through USA Jobs.
It took me 9 months to get my foot in the door (accepted a temporary position as a 9- position NTE two years).
Applied for and received a permanent position 1.5 years later (same group).
Applied for and received a promotion (to a 14) 2.5 years later- different group and I knew no one there.

ALL of these positions were through USA Jobs (although I did have a heads up on the perm position since I was a temp employee already). There was at least one vet on the cert.

In all of the HUNDREDS of applications I put in - I only received one call. ONE. It only takes one. You never know what that one might be.

Seems like rather a poor return on time invested.

My verdict is, and remains, if you're a vet or a recent college grad, it's ok. I might adopt 11:18's position but put my real (much stronger) resume along with a cut and paste of the posting. Heh.

Really? I have a GS-14 position in less than 6 years. I applied for between 5-15 jobs a week for close to 9 months (some fed some not fed) at the height of the recession. I was out of work anyway and needed a job. I guess it all depends on how you look at things. You see a poor investment. I see a career and a job I love. To each his own.

If it takes longer to apply for a Fed position than a private sector position, and the deck is stacked in favor of already Feds, veterans, and people who just cut and paste the job description in their resumes, then yes, I view applying to Fed jobs as a waste of time. I might feel otherwise if I weren't employed but if I am already employed, my time is valuable -- I have family obligations, personal obligations, and job obligations to worry about.