Don’t Wait For USAJobs.com To Tell You About The Government Jobs
A lot of times when someone starts the process of searching for a career with the Federal government on USAJOBS, they create a “Job Search Agent.” The Job Search Agent periodically runs a job search based upon specified criteria and then notifies the person of matching jobs.
I’d offer the advice that rather than depend on the Job Search Agent, you go out to USAJOBS every other day or so and manually run a job search yourself. I think this is important for a several reasons:
- Most people set-and-forget the Agent. In other words, they forget to go back and review it to see if there are changes that can be made that might give more hits, with the end result being that they miss out on opportunities to apply for more positions.
- Depending on how often you set the agent to run, a position may open and close before you ever get notification – again missing opportunities to submit your Federal resume.
- When doing manual searches, you tend to think of ways to tweak your searches in ways that might give you more or varied results. That doesn’t happen with the Agent.
- When you get in the system and do your searches regularly, you become more familiar with the Federal jobs that are being posted and how many. For instance, if there were 90 Federal jobs fitting your search on one day, and 98 two days later, you’d more likely notice this if you were searching manually than if you were letting an automated system do it.
- The more you work with the system, the more you learn about finding potential jobs that you might have the credentials for. For instance, if you have an engineering background you may initially only be searching for Federal positions in the 0801 series (Engineer); however, after becoming familiar with the system, you would learn that a 0340 (Program Manager) position often requires and engineering background. Now you know how to expand your government job search.
In the end, visiting USAJOBS on a regular basis to search for your Federal career will most certainly pay off with more opportunities.
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Thank you!
One of the things that has struck me as a federal human resources professional is the overall lack of understanding that the general public has with regards to finding federal government positions and federal resume writing. That is why we have dedicated this site and our product, the Federal Resume Toolbox, to helping people overcome these barriers and get a career that is rewarding and makes a difference.
extremely upset
As a federal correctional officer just trying to get promoted and meet the deadlines, USAJOBS website has upset me greatly. It has dropped me off three different computers and two addresses. I have wasted 10 hours and have nothing to show for it. Whats wrong with this site.
Bobby,
I’m sorry you are having problems with USAJobs. Just for clarification… are you having problems within USAJobs or are you being dropped after being redirected to another application? More than likely when you select “Apply Online” on the right hand side of the screen within USAJobs, you will be redirected to the BOP system or Bureau of Prisons application system. If you are truly having issues with USAJobs click on the “Contact Us” from their home page and send them a message. They are quick to respond, so don’t waste anymore time getting dropped. If you are having issues with the BOP system then after you click on the job title within USAJobs there will be contact information on the right hand side of the screen under the 4 blue buttons.
By the way… if you find yourself not getting the promotion that you are seeking you might want to check out our Federal Resume Toolbox. It’s helped numerous people get their dream job as well as that next promotion.
Best of luck!!!
Fed HR, thanks for the tip about the federal resume toolbox. I got to check it out, the next time I log in.
if they have KSAs, copy and paste them into a word file and work on them on your own time- trying to do it in the browser window is asking for a disaster.
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