IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???

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Anonymous wrote:Normally, if I were applying for a promotion within my agency, I'd put bullets about my specific projects.

If I were applying externally, I would describe my experience in much more general terms.

Which should we do for this? (I have been busy having kids and cancer so I haven't done this exercise in 10 years.)

Are you Op and you need a RIF resume? Do the one based on your job. Be as detailed as possible.

But also work on the external one so you are ready of the RIF comes.

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.

And if OP doesn't bother to do one, a thoughtful decision would be they don't care and are asleep at the wheel.

My husband told me he is not planning to upload a resume. He is very high up tax lawyer (best in his field) and has had 5-6 firms call him in the last month or so asking if he is ready to go back as a partner to the fold/dark side/that he has a spot (no resume needed - track record/history will serve). He hasn’t been submitting five bullets either. I am envious of his ability to say “FU/treat me with the professional respect I deserve” to this nonsense! (Obviously most are not in this position- I most certainly would toe the line “how high shall I jump , sir?!”)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.

And if OP doesn't bother to do one, a thoughtful decision would be they don't care and are asleep at the wheel.

My husband told me he is not planning to upload a resume. He is very high up tax lawyer (best in his field) and has had 5-6 firms call him in the last month or so asking if he is ready to go back as a partner to the fold/dark side/that he has a spot (no resume needed - track record/history will serve). He hasn’t been submitting five bullets either. I am envious of his ability to say “FU/treat me with the professional respect I deserve” to this nonsense! (Obviously most are not in this position- I most certainly would toe the line “how high shall I jump , sir?!”)

Good for him!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who do we imagine is looking through every IRS employee's resume? i think that is the bigger issue. Feels like I waste of time. Like the weekly 5 bullets. It is not hard or time consuming but there is no purpose.

+1.

No one is going through thousands of IRS employee resumes. This is another time-waster and psychological game, like the five bullet exercise.

But OP, things aren’t looking good. I would do a resume so that you’re prepared to look for a new job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who do we imagine is looking through every IRS employee's resume? i think that is the bigger issue. Feels like I waste of time. Like the weekly 5 bullets. It is not hard or time consuming but there is no purpose.

Right! Absolutely no purpose whatsoever for a remainder of life spent unemployed.
Even unemployment benefits require one to be seeking employment. Hard to make a case you are doing that with no resume.

Reading comprehension. Try it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If IRS is asking for resumes, they may be attempting to do the RIF the traditional way. If they do, it will be the very first agency to do so, so that's actually a great thing.

A resume sounds daunting, but isn't with chat GPT, etc. (which can be used for free).

Presumably, the reason for the resume is that they're trying to to find another internal job for you rather than lay you off. In a traditional rif, they could offer you a different job for which you are qualified, rather than just unemploying you. So it's worth doing it. It wouldn't need to be fancy, but you would want to have all of your job skills noted, and all your prior federal jobs noted (because the most straightforward thing would be to offer you one of those).

Resume is not part of the RIF process.

They are not doing a normal RIF, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Lightningjob.com will rewrite your resume to match any position description, this could be a good use case....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normally, if I were applying for a promotion within my agency, I'd put bullets about my specific projects.

If I were applying externally, I would describe my experience in much more general terms.

Which should we do for this? (I have been busy having kids and cancer so I haven't done this exercise in 10 years.)

Are you Op and you need a RIF resume? Do the one based on your job. Be as detailed as possible.

But also work on the external one so you are ready of the RIF comes.

Thanks, I am a different poster at a different Treasury bureau. They asked us for updated resumes a few weeks ago but didn't explain why, so I didn't do it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.

And if OP doesn't bother to do one, a thoughtful decision would be they don't care and are asleep at the wheel.

My husband told me he is not planning to upload a resume. He is very high up tax lawyer (best in his field) and has had 5-6 firms call him in the last month or so asking if he is ready to go back as a partner to the fold/dark side/that he has a spot (no resume needed - track record/history will serve). He hasn’t been submitting five bullets either. I am envious of his ability to say “FU/treat me with the professional respect I deserve” to this nonsense! (Obviously most are not in this position- I most certainly would toe the line “how high shall I jump , sir?!”)

I’m with Counsel and we haven’t been asked to upload a resume. I haven’t submitted the 5 things because I never received the email requesting them and our guidance is that if you didn’t get the email, you don’t have to do this exercise.

On the other hand our new acting chief counsel is a boot licking coward who couldn’t even be bothered to show up to the “meet the new acting chief counsel” town hall and instead submitted a pre recorded video of himself that sounded like an 8th grader running for class president. And he professes that we have too many meetings and everything can be done via email, so wtf are we in the office? Except, he decided the building was too empty last Friday afternoon so we got a lecture about how we can’t use maxi flex to mimic a 4 10 schedule and threatened with the removal of maxi flex. But many of us work 6-3:30. That’s why the building was empty by 4:30 on a Friday. Andplusalso, it was spring break for many schools last week so people were on leave. Asshhat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.

And if OP doesn't bother to do one, a thoughtful decision would be they don't care and are asleep at the wheel.

My husband told me he is not planning to upload a resume. He is very high up tax lawyer (best in his field) and has had 5-6 firms call him in the last month or so asking if he is ready to go back as a partner to the fold/dark side/that he has a spot (no resume needed - track record/history will serve). He hasn’t been submitting five bullets either. I am envious of his ability to say “FU/treat me with the professional respect I deserve” to this nonsense! (Obviously most are not in this position- I most certainly would toe the line “how high shall I jump , sir?!”)

I’m with Counsel and we haven’t been asked to upload a resume. I haven’t submitted the 5 things because I never received the email requesting them and our guidance is that if you didn’t get the email, you don’t have to do this exercise.

On the other hand our new acting chief counsel is a boot licking coward who couldn’t even be bothered to show up to the “meet the new acting chief counsel” town hall and instead submitted a pre recorded video of himself that sounded like an 8th grader running for class president. And he professes that we have too many meetings and everything can be done via email, so wtf are we in the office? Except, he decided the building was too empty last Friday afternoon so we got a lecture about how we can’t use maxi flex to mimic a 4 10 schedule and threatened with the removal of maxi flex. But many of us work 6-3:30. That’s why the building was empty by 4:30 on a Friday. Andplusalso, it was spring break for many schools last week so people were on leave. Asshhat.

Total asshat.

Also I totally love you.

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Anonymous wrote:You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

For those of us who have the job we want it’s a pointless exercise. When a job opens up that I am interested in I write a resume for that job framing and highlighting the experience relevant to that job.

At any given point you should be employable in case you need to leave or you're let go.

Or not.

At the point they need a new job, they would write a resume, moron.

The resume isn't what makes you employable. You figure out what needs to be on the resume and you do the work to get there. Or you don't. Again, up to you.

Then you’re saying people don’t need to have a resume prewritten—the opposite of what you said before. Do you have a learning disability? You make no sense otherwise.

I'm sorry you're complacent and unemployable and screwed.

Once again, you continue to make no sense. Not having a resume prewritten at all times does not mean a person is unemployable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.

And if OP doesn't bother to do one, a thoughtful decision would be they don't care and are asleep at the wheel.

My husband told me he is not planning to upload a resume. He is very high up tax lawyer (best in his field) and has had 5-6 firms call him in the last month or so asking if he is ready to go back as a partner to the fold/dark side/that he has a spot (no resume needed - track record/history will serve). He hasn’t been submitting five bullets either. I am envious of his ability to say “FU/treat me with the professional respect I deserve” to this nonsense! (Obviously most are not in this position- I most certainly would toe the line “how high shall I jump , sir?!”)

I’m with Counsel and we haven’t been asked to upload a resume. I haven’t submitted the 5 things because I never received the email requesting them and our guidance is that if you didn’t get the email, you don’t have to do this exercise.

On the other hand our new acting chief counsel is a boot licking coward who couldn’t even be bothered to show up to the “meet the new acting chief counsel” town hall and instead submitted a pre recorded video of himself that sounded like an 8th grader running for class president. And he professes that we have too many meetings and everything can be done via email, so wtf are we in the office? Except, he decided the building was too empty last Friday afternoon so we got a lecture about how we can’t use maxi flex to mimic a 4 10 schedule and threatened with the removal of maxi flex. But many of us work 6-3:30. That’s why the building was empty by 4:30 on a Friday. Andplusalso, it was spring break for many schools last week so people were on leave. Asshhat.

I don't maxi-flex, but I'm out by 3:30 every day. I come in before 7. I have half a mind to go post a time-stamped note on his door before 7am asking why he didn't see fit to come to the office today. What an idiot. I wish I could've seen the chat on his recording.

[Anonymous]

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I don't maxi-flex, but I'm out by 3:30 every day. I come in before 7. I have half a mind to go post a time-stamped note on his door before 7am asking why he didn't see fit to come to the office today. What an idiot. I wish I could've seen the chat on his recording.

To add, the note will say, Good morning, Boot-Licking Coward, It is a bit before 7am and you are not here. Therefore I assume that you will not be in the office today. There could not possibly be any other reason why you are not here by 6:30AM, like, I dunno, you come in at 9 and work until 5:30, or you are away on approved leave. Those would be impossible for me to fathom if I too were wholly unqualified to perform my job, or any lawyer job, all of which do require a certain minimal amount of critical thinking skills. Have the day you deserve if you ever come to the office and see this!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.

RIFs are not based on resumes, there is a legal process rhey need to follow considering seniority, veteran status, job availability/categories, bumping, etc. The request for resumes sounds like a potentially illegal factor being considered for RIFs.

[Anonymous]

Reddit posters are also questioning this request.