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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a GS-15 and have sat on both sides of the table when it comes to selection. One of the things that you need to let go of is the concept of being the "best," because what they are looking for is the best fit for that job, at that particular time, with those particular coworkers, to tackle the goals and problems they are having at the moment. It doesn't mean that the person selected is better than you in an abstract sense. It means that for many reasons that will never be known to you, they were persuaded that that person was the better fit.

It isn't easy to get a GS-15. You may have to interview for several before you are selected. You absolutely can raise a stink and say that you think that the person who got the job isn't as great as you and that the hiring manager was biased. But from what you're telling us here, I don't think you have enough information to make that case. And if you don't, then you'll sound like a jerk, like you are insulting not one but two people (the selectee and the hiring official).

My advice is to be classy about this, if at all possible. You could send the hiring official a note that you're sad that you didn't get the job but do want to learn from them as a manager, and that you'd like some mentorship. You could congratulate the selectee and tell them that you're there to help, and mean it when you say it. But if all those things seem too difficult, then 1) to be totally blunt, you don't need a GS-15 because at that level you need to be all about the needs of the agency and much less about yourself, and 2) you should just stay silent until you can accept that other people can make compelling cases for why they should be hired. [/quote]

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