Onboarding for Federal Contractor
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| It has been a while since I have onboarded to a new job and am new to the government and cannot recall how long the process takes. I am coming from the private sector and just got a federal contracting job and my official start date is today. They gave me some paperwork to fill out for the badge and my federal account and access. Job does require a public trust so I had to fill out forms for this. They said I need to get the public trust first then will get access to my federal ID and GFE along with email accounts. How long does all this take? Do I still get paid during this time I am sitting around waiting and doing nothing? In the private sector, you just come in and start work/training on day 1. |
Anonymous
| Perhaps ask the people who are giving you the forms to fill out. |
Anonymous
Lol seriously. “Do I start getting paid on my official start date?” seems like good info to have before giving notice at your former job too…. |
Anonymous
| OP, it can take several weeks, depending on the agency. No, you don't get paid for the time you're sitting around waiting. |
BlueFredneck
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I was a (contractor) sysadmin at an FAA site and am now a sysadmin at a defense contractor's office.
If you're working at a customer (i.e. government) site it will typically take longer as there's usually (almost always?) a separate group who handles account setup on the government domain. (My domain involved everything in a separate enclave that for security reasons wasn't reachable from the rest of the FAA network.) BUT - despite all this we had folks set up for Day One about 75% of the time - the other 25% - maybe 15-20% it was due to the government domain admin group having some delay, and the rest of the time it was having under 3-4 days to get someone set up. But if we had two weeks notice we had you set up 100% of the time, accountwise and laptopwise, for Day One. The badge - that required yet another group. It'd come in the mail deactivated. There was a separate badging station you had to fill out yet another form on, although if you had the clearances/access, they typically gave you a temp badge on Day One. Surprised they told you to put in your two weeks as if something came up in your public trust investigation you'd be SOL and out of a job. If someone didn't have an active clearance and had harder-to-find skills, they'd typically wait 2-6 weeks for the interim to come through. BUT they'd give you a tentative offer contingent on obtaining the needed clearances. So you'd just keep working at your old job until everyone got tired of waiting OR your clearance and other paperwork came through. If your official start day is today, I suspect you're getting paid, although I'm shocked you didn't get that clarified from your future bosses. Some interim secrets take longer than others (depending on foreign travel, cleared family members, and your general background) - I've seen it take as little as a week and I've had other people leave after it took six months to get the interim. |