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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When your manager tells you there is no money for promotion for you to the next level, he is talking about your job grade ladder and the agency having money to promote employees up the ladder to the next grade.

The agency having money for two new positions (what are called "FTEs" or full time equivalents) is an entirely different process that may have begun years before you arrived.  You are mixing apples and oranges.  Your boss is probably telling the truth -- no money for promotions.  Money for selections/new positions is a different pot of money and a different process.[/quote]

Agreed.  In point of fact, it is quite possible that the job is not meant for any of the 3 of you.  In my agency, when a department wants to hire new people, they have to create the job description and post it for a minimum of 5 days to allow internal applicants first, before they can repost it open for the public.  Your boss may have created this job description anywhere from six months to three years ago.  Does the job description match the job you were hired for?  It's also possible that they reused the job description from when you were hired and just increasing the GS level.  He submitted the request that he needs two new FTEs and then it goes into the bureaucracy and he has no control over when it comes out.  And the fact that these jobs just came out after mid-year reviews is coincidental.  If any of the existing staff does apply and get hired into those positions, then the existing job will be advertised and backfilled, but it will have to go through the same procedure, open for 5 days for internal agency applications and then opened to the public.  I've seen this happen many, many times over the years I've worked at this agency.[/quote]

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