re: Trump getting rid of automatic raises for federal workers

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1. The only way for your resume to make it through to get hired is if you copy the entire job posting and put it in your resume. If a Procurement professional is applying for a Contracting officer job and puts that they are a purchasing agent, when the job listing says procurement agent, their resume will not make it through the screening.

2. Because of #1, resumes are convoluted pieces of shite that at no way represent the person's past experience. Hence, you only get applicants that apply for everything at USA jobs.

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The people who are pros at beating the computer......along with the people who write exactly what their buddy in the department told them to write.

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3. Once hired, you not only have better benefits than everyone, but you immediately get step increases. At NASA, they would hire basically everyone into a 5-7-9 or 9-11-12 step position. This means you start year one as a 5, but end year 3 as a 9, or start as a 9 - end on a 12. These positions basically see a doubling in pay within a few years of being hired. That is like being hired as a secretary and being a major account executive in 3 years

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I will give a SLIGHT pass on this merely because they're willfully under hiring people. IE, hiring people whose resumes "say" they could be a GS 12 and they hire them at GS9 with the promise of 12.

Of course, that causes you to get people at the bottom of the barrel of GS12 caliber folks. Because true GS12 caliber people aren't willing to wait 2 years for it.

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7. Because of #6, most of the mid-tier managers in CS are worthless asshats that just got their jobs because of the step increase. I shite you not, I worked with a GS-13 that could barely read!

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Yup