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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 52 years old and recently became a Fed GS-14 step 5 without any Fed experience.  I applied for over 100 Fed jobs without a single interview and it was depressing.  I ran into a former college classmate who is a CIO of a federal agency and I got hired three months after the background check.  It would be almost impossible for me to get hired without the help of my CIO friend.  That being said, I took an early buyout from my previous job with 12 months paid in salary and vetted stock options to join the fed.  The key is to know someone on the inside.[/quote]

That is super weird.  Never heard of anything like this.  We have to get our hiring options from whomever makes the cert through HR -- they do all the vetting and selecting and we have no input in pushing for the "inside man".

Must very by agency, wonder which agency is so sketch?[/quote]

[b]they know the CIO. it was probably a direct hire position, like many tech/cyber security positions.[/b] [/quote]

^This.  
It is very common in the Fed with technology and cyber positions and I work at three different agencies where I got hired when my boss left his position in the private sector to become Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at an agency in the Fed and I joined him three months later.  I left the Fed after two years to go back to the private sector.  Three years later, he went to another agency and I joined him there.   I then left after two years to go back into the private sector and he also left that agency to join another agency as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).  I joined the Fed agency last year as a GS15  where my former boss is now the CTO and it was a very quick process.  I would have zero shot if he wasn't the CTO there.  It is not what you know but who know you matters the most.
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