Change coming?
Many moons ago I was part of an "appointment process" in the federal government. Rather than having a job vacancy and filling it, sometimes the government gathers a pool of people that they can call upon as positions open over a year or more. After sending in my resume, writing a 3 hour exam, giving a presentation and having an interview I found out a few months back I did make it to the final pool. Which could mean nothing, because I will not necessarily ever be offered a job, I just might be offered a job.
Today I received a paper saying that I got a certain security clearance for "current position/employment" and needed to sign some document and send it back.
What does this mean? Is this happening for everyone in the pool or will I be offerred a job in the near future? Explanation please!!!
Today I received a paper saying that I got a certain security clearance for "current position/employment" and needed to sign some document and send it back.
What does this mean? Is this happening for everyone in the pool or will I be offerred a job in the near future? Explanation please!!!
posted by Jude | 10:16 PM
4 Comments:
Yes, it does.
But first you will have to face three challenges sucessfully.
The first is a nasal endurance test where the candidate inserts progressively larger and larger pickles up her nose.
If she passes, she moves on to the audio endurance phase where the subject is seated in a sound-proof booth and subjected to hearing only the first two lines of every cheesy country western song written. (It is important here to note that the subject is required to be restrained and fitted with a catheter)
Thirdly, should the candidate still be interested in the position, there is the Gauntlet; whereby the candidate must endure walking a line of little people wielding knobby sticks.
I didn't say it was a good explaination...
I asked DJ as he works for the province, and he said to ask Ron DeCock as he works for the feds.
Maybe he would know.
http://rondecock.blogspot.com/
Ask him, maybe he knows something.
Deej thinks it might be the job.
Sounds like you passed the interview process and they may be offering you a job. Generally, when you are asked to fill out security clearance stuff, it means either you are offered the job, or a few, maybe 2 or 3 of you, are matched for the jjob, but they want to see if you pass security clearances, and then have a final interivew and choose from that. My friend Wendy went through that process with Stats Can. There were three steps. !st Interview. Testing. Waiting, then second interview. She was "second choice", or "runner-up" and didn't get the job. She was told if the first didn't work out they would call her, because they matched criteria but personalities were different.
Anyway, if it is a job, would you take it?
This appointment process was similar, but they were clear with me that the last interview I had was the last interview. When specific positions open, there won't be another interview, they will just pop open the files and decide to whom they will offer the job. It still seems weird that if they are about to offer me a job that they wouldn't check to see if I was still interested before proceeding with security clearnaces. That makes me think it's just something they are doing for everyone in the pool. But then why wouldn't they do that immediately after the pool was decided a couple of months ago rather than waiting until now? Look at me, I'm asking why a bureacracy waits.
If they offer it to me, I'll want to hear the details - what area, travel expectations, term or permanent. That said theres a 95% chance that I'll take the job. It's an area that I want to work in and I'm not finding my current job very intellectually stimulating. Plus gov't jobs pay waaaaaay better.
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