LOCAL COMMUTING AREA

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know why some job announcements on USAJOBS list "LOCAL COMMUTING AREA" under "Who May Apply"?

Example

LOCAL COMMUTING AREA: Current or Former Federal Employees with Competitive Status; Reinstatement Eligibles; OPM Interchange Agreement Eligibles

Does "LOCAL COMMUTING AREA" apply to current and former employees only, or does it apply to everybody listed?

[Anonymous]

I am guessing it applies to all applicants. Call the contact # at the bottom to confirm. GL.

[Anonymous]

I'd assume the posting is only for federal employees and they are not approved to pay relocation expenses. I agree you should call the number.

[Anonymous]

I assume that they know who they want for the job and are trying to narrow the pool of applicants.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you everybody. I doubt this has anything to do with relocation expenses. If they don't want to pay, they say so directly. I'm more curious about things like this:

Anonymous wrote:I assume that they know who they want for the job and are trying to narrow the pool of applicants.

I doubt the HR contact will be able to enlighten me about stuff like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everybody. I doubt this has anything to do with relocation expenses. If they don't want to pay, they say so directly. I'm more curious about things like this:

Anonymous wrote:I assume that they know who they want for the job and are trying to narrow the pool of applicants.

I doubt the HR contact will be able to enlighten me about stuff like this.

If the time to apply is short, eg, 1 week when it normally would be 2 or more weeks, that may be an indicator that they already have someone specific in mind but have to put out the notice to comply with the law.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes they make the opening short in order to get less resumes. At my husband's agency HR will do thus when there is no specific applicant.

I also wouldn't assume they list relocation because different HRs do different things. Not always sense to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes they make the opening short in order to get less resumes. At my husband's agency HR will do thus when there is no specific applicant.

I also wouldn't assume they list relocation because different HRs do different things. Not always sense to it.

*fewer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes they make the opening short in order to get less resumes. At my husband's agency HR will do thus when there is no specific applicant.

I also wouldn't assume they list relocation because different HRs do different things. Not always sense to it.

*fewer

give me a break, grammar police. I'm attempting to take time to be helpful. It's comments like this that make people less likely to be nice to others.

[Anonymous]

I also wrote "thus". Want to bitch about that also? Or *as well?

[Anonymous]

Make the fewer/less mistake on a resume and it will be tossed out. Just trying to help.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lot more careful in a resume than posting on DCUM from my cell phone. Anyway, I'm not the one with resume issues.