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Anonymous wrote:This is...intense. I understand that your wife’s career has an impact on you and your family, but why are you so involved? “We” got a resume service, “our” fault, “we” made a FOIA request...are you applying for jobs on your wife’s behalf?
To further answer your question, we often use each other to proof read our work and provide a 2nd set of eyes to anything we do, especially something like a federal job application as it is very intense and requires a lot of attention to detail. Even then you will likely miss something. The entire process is designed this way to make it easier for them to hire who they want. Several questions on the questionnaire if you notice, are contradictory, and you can easily disqualify yourself by simply clicking a no instead of a yes on a question, even though you already answered a similar question with a yes. Some of these yes or no questions are large paragraphs that won't include your category until the very end, and you can't select yes to more than one category. Like an "click all that applies" option, which would make more sense. The application doesn't check itself for inconsistencies and you can easily miss something that was buried in a 12 sentence paragraph that was meant for you. She missed out on another job a while back by doing this very thing.
I have been single all of my life, the application process is not 'intense', and if you think it is, you should have seen it when you had to go down in person, as I did from the age of 19, and look on bulletin boards at the federal building, write out all the information, then do the entire application by hand before they had the website! No one helped me fill out any applications.
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