What position did you apply for? Do they advertise via USAJobs? I have yet to come across a vacancy announcement with HUD on USAJobs. I maybe wrong tho...

Your assumption is laughably incorrect. A GS-9 job without any highly specialized experience or education can easily attract *a lot* of applicants.

I missed that... looks like joke is on me.

As a current HUD employee and the initiator of the aforementioned discussion, last year's budget issues and this year's sequestration are challenging. But to answer your question, I would say this forum is relatively inactive because HUD tends to hire in spurts rather than consistently through the year and unfortunately, these spurts tend to happen once every few years.

Anyways, as a new HUD employee, I've found the learning curve to be steep, but the community is welcoming, especially to the folks who have been with HUD for less than five years. I've worked with folks in Fair Housing and the office seems exciting and the issues they deal with are inspiring. While I wouldn't rest entirely on that EO Specialist position necessarily or a promise of a quick response, I'd continue to apply. Anyways, my break is almost up, but I wanted to put in my two cents!

One reason why there isn't much activity here is that although HUD is a cabinet level department, it only has something like 9.000 employees. Pretty small compared to DOD or the Postal Service. Another is that there is little hiring going on.

i need some detail about your thread