Internal Revenue Service

Guys we got a email today regarding IRS IT hiring surge for 2018 they encourage everyone who qualified to apply its for both internal and external most of job opening close by next week so please share and apply.

All the best.

Thanks Johns. Not sure what triggered this surge of jobs in various areas across the country. I do agree with Hired 2015 on a lot of things about it. Hopefully this time they are actually hiring and not selecting.

Love your select statement- lol.

I believe they have been amending some of the announcements this morning in regards to location.

These jobs lack the future state. Too many today's gen IT college grads end up defaulting on debt over juggling relocations for jobs. The reality is more are living with their parents and taking lower pay jobs outside IT due to housing considerations. I was shocked during furlough when my unemployment office asked me to consider a non paid volunteer job working with displaced IT'ers and teaching a coding camp. Contradiction of ideas was atypical. Best part of an IT degree is you can always work for free. Midwest has unemployed IT'ers that can't afford to move. FYI the jobs boards in my area were flagged these openings as not legit.

What budget? There is no budget. We're on Continuing Resolution #5 which runs out at 2359 EDT on Friday, March 23nd. Nobody has seen the draft text of the bloody overdue omnibus budget that's rumored to be in the works. Without that we don't even know what we're doing with the seasonal CSRs. People at Cleveland are planning as if we're getting thrown overboard when we lose "essential-excepted" status at the close of filing season if we still don't have a budget.

Don't get your hopes up about any hiring surge. A surge in resignations, though, could always potentially happen. That might prove interesting to see play out to see who jumps ship if things deteriorate that far.

The light from the Future State lighthouse is dimming.

Having them be "roster" announcements even for internal applicants means nothing is funded immediately but may become funded during the 6 month life of the roster. A maximum number of picks are announced but the minimum is zero. This allows HCO to see what hiring pools are available while they wait on enactment of a more permanent budget.

If you need an immediate job, try a different job announcement. This is only window shopping right now.

Thank you for the information. I was trying to figure out what was going on with IRS. While I am looking at other options right now hopefully, something works out soon.

I checked out the listing. I wondered what was going on. The salary range is all over the place.

Frontline managers are not software programmers.

What we don't understand we can't manage.

The Future State in the process improvement lifecycle has achieved all it can in non-IT areas. Suggestions for IRM changes are relevant nickel and dime savings implemented by frontline staff based their non-IT skills. Its the IT workers that will save far more. The skill levels of the two groups are both needed and valuable in different ways. IT workers are valuable in their own way with their skills. Frontline managers haven't been trained to accept that difference and diversity IT workers bring to the table.

You can't embrace a skill diversity work group when you only want to hear your side and fear the unknown.

Many years ago a family brought a concern about the IRS hiring to a public school system future scholar group. Their child had worked hard attending high school in a homeless shelter to finish school. The group had helped their child apply to the IRS. We were all shocked when that kid got really negative reviews and was given the option to resign. The strange part was the kid had IT training and was one of the future scholar grads that had an associate degree.

You can't begin to embrace skill diversity when you don't retain workers.

What happened in the future scholar program is a big a clue for Future State. The program no longer advertises, promotes or helps students apply to the IRS. That had a ripple with local colleges not listing IRS jobs. The future scholar group was made up of volunteers from every walk of life. They never had any funding nor did they fundraise, they weren't a non-profit. They asked the question why were high school grads living blocks away from major employers not getting jobs. The grads applied to the employers to find the answer. The group was made up of teachers and parents. The answer was the companies including the IRS some far distance past was disappointed after hiring a local high school grad. That got passed from one manager to another until the doors were locked for future grads.

You can't create diversity in the workplace by feeding the poor to keep them in poverty when you don't want to hire them. Diversity can't be created by following outdated hiring and training policies designed to exclude.

Future State relies on Future Scholars.

Diversity requires inclusion and inclusion requires acceptance.

How are you going to get there when many policies and word game rules are culturally insensitive to outsiders that feel excluded? I hail from a city of many languages and speak so-so French but I do spell cheque the way it is spelled in my hometown. Diversity says that is OK.

Edited by user Saturday, June 2, 2018 5:22:15 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Where is the hiring surge? I would love to find a new job.