Internal Revenue Service

should be OK now

Got an email notifying me that I passed Phase 2 today.

I believe the resume review part is next, which I expect to be my biggest hurdle. Hope to hear something soon.

What was your time frame from medical to final offer? I am assuming your employer was never contacted prior?

Anyone know what’s the current CI journeymen level?

Hi Decaf!

I transferred from an OIG for better cases and advancement opportunities. My agency was tiny, only 75 agents when I left. Twenty percent of those were in management and they never leave, so promotion was near impossible. The cases were specific to that OIG and there was very little variety. I was lucky enough to work a few joint cases with IRS-CI agents and liked their work ethic, intelligence and stories about the diversity in their casework. I won't lie, had I known how challenging the SAIT training was going to be, I likely would not have signed on with IRS-CI. BUT, I had a great attitude in training, awesome instructors and peers and the intelligence to get through the program. And now I am over the moon with joy at my new job.

The work/life balance at IRS-CI is great. Many of my fellow agents have small kids and the agency is great about teleworking and time off (sick or annual leave). We have plenty of opportunities for additional duties and LEAP is easy to earn once you get into the swing of casework (get out of the office). I have done more enforcement operations in the first six months on the job than I did in 14 years at my OIG job. Because we have a different focus for our performance ratings, the job is less cut-throat, agent pinned against agent for stats, and more cohesive. I have never failed to get a go-by, contact, extra set of eyes, volunteers for OPs, etc. Management and your fellow agents want you to succeed as we all represent the IRS and CI.

I am only the second person I have met here that does not have an accounting degree. I didn't have the minimum required hours, but as a lateral transfer with 14+ years of financial investigations (21+ years total as a LEO), and a MBA, once I got invited to the interview, it no longer mattered for me. The agency is pushing those hours currently and I feel very blessed to have transferred when I did. Many 1811's like to end up in an OIG job, and it is not common for a current OIG to transfer to IRS-CI, but my SAIT class had 3 of us who transferred from OIGs (plus one each from USSS and ATF). I hope I was able to answer your questions and I wish you the best of luck!

Ugh again! Lol one second

Umm no it’s not

CITP is easy. SAIT sucks and is mostly sitting in a classroom.

Most people dropped in CITP are dropped for being drunk idiots on the weekend. Most people dropped from SAIT are classroom related and not booze related.

FLETC in general is like the military. Crawl, walk, run. You'll disassemble a pistol first. Then spend classes on the virtual range getting a feel for drawing and presenting. Every class is structured.

CITP and SAIT have two different qualifications. IRS-CI's qual is harder than CITP.

These questions of "how much does someone fail XYZ" are just going to stress you out. You will have practiced many times over before the real qualification (and generally, before any sort of graded exercise). You'll *KNOW* if you need to work on something in particular well in advance of the graded qualification, whether you know you need work or an instructor points it out to you.

It's hard to say how common failure is. It's a bunch of people from all walks of life getting thrown into the deep end of a new environment. I thought CITP was straight-forward and easy, but there were some in my class who struggled academically. Yet we lost no one in my CITP class.

SAIT is challenging academically. How to make SAIT not so bad? Be organized, plan ahead. They'll teach you what you need to know. I think studying anything now ahead of time will just confuse you.

You went to your own MD? What does the medical review officer require?

When I had my medical done, I was asked to get a separate eye exam later because I had LASIK a few years ago. Wasn't much of an issue.