Internal Revenue Service

I heard from a friend they hired 2 new people in their group on the helpdesk.

Not sure both were internal hires from Austin and Fresno. Its the same job as the external annoucment

Morning and hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day,

Has anyone heard anything from the 19CE1-ITB0163-2210-5T12-J announcement?

Hello all, do any one know someone received an TO offer for any external IT position recently.

Woodytech21, I was also referred to the selecting officials on the 23rd of May but haven't heard anything since then. Patiently waiting.

I have my master as well. (Computer science). I have 3 years IT experience. I am currently trying to leave a private sector and move to the government. I have three referred. The rest of the positions is under review with a CAT A rating. I am waiting as well. 2 of the referred I stated on the forum.

I have a BS. I do have 10ish years experience.... maybe you will have luck after your masters? I’m sitting with 2 I believe with A rating 🤷‍♀️

I’m an Internal applicant and received an offer on 06/24/2019 for the announcement 19CE2-ITB0044-2210-5T9-S, GS-2210-07-01. If you are internal make sure you check your .Gov email address as they requested a response within 24 hours of the offer. Ask your NTEU union Chief Steward or Chapter President to check the selection certificate to see if you’ve been selected. Although they can’t give you personal information about other applicants, they can let you know iwhat your ranking is compared to the top 4 referred plus any ties and 1 additional applicant in accordance with The 2019 National Agreement, Article 13.

First thing external applicants must realize is that IT possitions being filled internally are like unicorns. Most people don’t have the degree but the experience which makes it very difficult to fill. In this case external applicants have the advantage over internal applicants

Now the National Agreement is a contract between the IRS and the Second largest labor union in the United States. Article 13 states that for vacancy announcements (open posistions) candidate will be ranked in accordance with Article 13, Section 5 then from those ranked the top 4 ranked will be referred. Every one that ties with those top 4 will be referred plus one additional applicant for each additional vacancy. Those are the candidates from which selections can be made by the agency (Article 13, Section 6G).

“The BQ applicants will be the top four (4) applicants plus one (1) additional name for each additional vacancy. All tied candidates will be referred. An employee will not be removed from the BQ list of a pending package because he or she has accepted another position unless he/she withdraws from consideration from that pending package in writing.

Understand this, since it is exceedingly difficult to find candidates internally that meet the requirements, external candidates have a better chance if they have the education and experience. The only issue I can see, is that the pool of external applicants are several times larger than internal ones. As a result, careful consideration must be given to each applicant if they choose not to use a ranking based selection technique. What that means is for 150 available vacancies for any given position in a static POD for IT, 60 will be internal and 90 external. Now these numbers are hunch based on my experience as a Chief Steward in my chapter, nevertheless, I feel confident in that ratio.

Edited by user Friday, July 5, 2019 5:52:38 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thanks for the insight.