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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you sure the job really has promotion potential to the 13? Double check your PD and the announcement (or your application in USAJOBS). If this was truly an error when you were hired, they need to fix it. [/quote]

I am a PMF and I did not apply through USAjobs.  The PMF program is 3 years and is supposed to go GS9 the first year, then GS11, then GS12.  My understanding is only PHDs end the PMF with a 13.  What my supervisor told me, over and over and over again, was that my job has promotion potential to GS 13.  Everyone else in my team and everyone else who has been in my team is a GS 13.  Where there were once 2 GS 13s and a GS14 team lead in my team, now there is just me, a GS12.  It is not exactly fair.

I would like a new job... but there is not exactly a lot of hiring going on.  Things just seem very dysfunctional and I guess it is just time for a career change and time to move on from government.  I am 33 years old and half the agency seems like they're at the appropriate age to retire, but I can't really move up this way.[/quote]

Are you at State by chance? While your position itself may be in a career ladder (i.e. promotion potential to a GS-13), the PMF program is by nature excepted service and at least where I am, ends at conversion at the GS-12 level. You were not hired into that specific career ladder but a PMF excepted service PD. So, you individually are not automatically eligible for non-competitive promotion to the top of that career ladder. You can absolutely compete for it under normal circumstances - this hiring freeze is not a normal environment. I’m sorry but that’s just the way it is. They’re not wrong. [/quote]

Thanks, your explanation at least makes some sense.  Does this mean there is no way to fight it, I guess?  [/quote]

Freeze is officially over at State and first new hiring policy directives have come out, so this could possibly get sorted out soon. Some bureaus (L) have gotten permission to really jump on hiring. Do you know what position your bureau is in? If you're in OES or DRL or GCJ, you're likely screwed, unfortunately... but EB or INL, hiring has started already. [/quote]

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