Getting a government job - where to start?

[Anonymous]

Is there still a job freeze? Where do I even begin to start in looking into a job in the FBI or CIA or any other fed job? I have bookkeeping and customer service experience but would like to look into getting a government job.

[Anonymous]

Haha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haha.

something funny?

[Anonymous]

Troll?

[Anonymous]

Unless you are looking to join ICE most govt agencies are under a hiring freeze.

[Anonymous]

At my fed agency, the people who do the admin assistant/bookkeeping/low-level office work are contractors. Even most junior analysts doing entry-level work, but not admin assistant work, (making slides, assisting with projects, data entry/basic data analysis) are contractors as well.

My agency is practically begging folks to retire, and those that do will not be replaced. It has been like this for a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my fed agency, the people who do the admin assistant/bookkeeping/low-level office work are contractors. Even most junior analysts doing entry-level work, but not admin assistant work, (making slides, assisting with projects, data entry/basic data analysis) are contractors as well.

My agency is practically begging folks to retire, and those that do will not be replaced. It has been like this for a few years.

What are some of the contracting companies? I don't know where to apply.

[Anonymous]

Ignore my last question. New question. Would it be better to work for a contracting company over the government?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignore my last question. New question. Would it be better to work for a contracting company over the government?

We are trying to tell you that you are not going to get hired as a Fed doing the type of work you put in the OP. Let's say, for the sake of example, that the Department of Labor posts a job at the GS - 5 level for general office support. I don't think this is a realistic example, but bear with me. They will get thousands, yes thousands of applications. Every applicant who is forwarded to the hiring manager will have veterans preference. In a lower level job such as this one, it is likely that many of those veterans will be qualified. On the other end of the spectrum, someone close to me is a hiring manager for a position requiring a PhD in economics. This is non-negotiable for the required work duties. He still receives lists from HR's vetting process consisting of veterans with unrelated experience. HR is completely broken.

Do some research on the companies that win contracts at the agencies you want to work for, doing the type of work you are qualified to do. Start with "support services contracts". We're not going to do your job search for you.

[Anonymous]

No, it's not better to be a contractor. Yes, you will lose all of your applications to veterans preference and most likely enter at gs5 or even below that. But, just keep applying if you really want a fed job. I have a friend that isn't a vet and she just got hired with the IRS (gs5). She has similar background to yours.