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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The major issue is if you want to move to another federal job, you don't count as a current, competitively-hired federal employee. That's partly why offices that rely heavily on direct hires have such low attrition rates - people stick around, or they leave the federal government entirely, because it's much harder for them to switch. Also, a lot of direct hire appointments are also term hires. You might find a way to be brought on permanently, but it's less likely than if you were brought on not in a term appointment. [/quote]

This. It's hard to move to another fed job if you're a direct hire. I did have mine converted, but I was hired into a special program that offered that. And the second I was converted into competitive service, I started applying and left.[/quote]

I have never heard of this.  My office did direct hires for many years and IT and Economist positions.  People move around all the time.  We do not have term limits either.[/quote]

Same.  We usually do direct hires for technical jobs.  You convert to a career employee in all circumstances I've worked with.  Check that's the case with this job.

Regarding your questions about benefits, it really is standard for all government so that's why you are getting that response.  Matching up to 5% to your TSP (Fed version of the 401k), look at the links regarding pension.  In some agencies, that stuff goes through another group that's not HR, or at least that's how it is at my agency.  Relocation expenses is job by job.  We very seldom do it at my agency and the one time I did as a hiring manger, I had to do a lot of justification.  It was my decision, not HR's. So you will need to ask for that up front. It's probably unlikely that you'll get relocation unless you have a very special skill set that's hard to hire. [/quote]

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