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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any thoughts on how the looking shut down may impact fed hiring? Currently interviewing for a role and I’m wondering if the agency might expedite to hire before shut down or if it will essentially just grind to a screeching halt.[/quote]

The federal government moves slowly.  The hiring process will continue at the usual pace.  If the government shuts down, the hiring process will stop immediately.  As soon as a CR or appropriations bill covering that position is in place, the hiring process will pick up where it left off.

The one change is that sometimes the appropriations bill includes verbage to cut money from an agency.  If the appropriations bill cuts funding from the project/task/organization that is hiring, they may lose the position that they were reviewing/interviewing for, in which case, even if an offer was extended, it could be rescinded.  So, rushing to hire is no guarantee that the position will remain open for hiring after an appropriations bill.

Essentially you will not know unless you get an offer and after appropriations, the position is still open to be filled and you actually start.  Until you start, the position can always be rescinded for political or financial reasons.[/quote]

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