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post 1617171571 09-21-2020, 12:12 PM
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Miscers with 6-figure government jobs. What field are you working in?

....and do you have to be in the military to apply to these jobs and if not, is someone at an advantage if they are associated with a branch in the military?
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fuhrer, yes military experience is required.

also 6 figures is a bit of an exaggeration.
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if you aren't a veteran, woman, or minority - good luck getting or advancing in a federal job.
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Originally Posted By HYDRAE⏩
if you aren't a veteran, woman, or minority - good luck getting or advancing in a federal job.
i'm black so....does that count? I've got a 4 year degree (BS in Biochem) but I don't quite meet the requirements for the jobs available. For many of the positions I qualify for maybe 3/4ths of the requirements. I was mainly curious as to how strict they are to adhering to those requirements or if there is flexibility?
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
i'm black so....does that count? I've got a 4 year degree (BS in Biochem) but I don't quite meet the requirements for the jobs available. For many of the positions I qualify for maybe 3/4ths of the requirements. I was mainly curious as to how strict they are to adhering to those requirements or if there is flexibility?
if you are black - 100% apply. srs. job 'requirements' are usually a wish list and shouldn't prevent you from applying.
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My dad's a doctor and works for a government run (public) hospital. Not sure if that counts.
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Originally Posted By HYDRAE⏩
if you aren't a veteran, woman, or minority - good luck getting or advancing in a federal job.
There were several non vet guys who got hired along with me.

At any rate - not 6 figs yet, but could definitely get there eventually.

At any rate, I'm an 1102 (Contract Specialist/Contracting Officer). Its definitely one of the best fields in the Government as far as the number of jobs/opportunities for advancement/etc. You need 24 hours of business credits, and a business related major though.
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You dont have to be prior service but good luck beating out people who have prior service experience. They will get chosen 95% of the time. 100k dollar jobs are there but you need the experience. You wont see 100k until you are at a GS-13 rank, it also depends on where you are working at. Cost of living is factored in.

If you are a woman/minority you do get some preference points. Degree helps big time too.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
....and do you have to be in the military to apply to these jobs and if not, is someone at an advantage if they are associated with a branch in the military?
a ton of the jobs are not open to the general public. The ones that are open to the general public are usually crap and only after they cant find someone internal or vets. Those get FLOODED with tons of applications, so like zero chance of ever getting them. People been at it for years and never got in.
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Work for a top banking regulator examining big and small banks for riskiness (making sure they don't do dumb chit) and compliance with laws and regs. Pretty easy job making 52k right out of college, and they train you. 7 years in and well into 6 figures, but was alot of travel before COVID.

I don't think a degree in biochem will get your foot in the door but any business degree will.

edit: as others have pointed out, prior military service gets veteran's preference for a leg up on similarly experienced candidates. And because they seek to have a workforce that mirrors the general population, being a minority does tend to help.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
i'm black so....does that count? I've got a 4 year degree (BS in Biochem)but I don't quite meet the requirements for the jobs available. For many of the positions I qualify for maybe 3/4ths of the requirements. I was mainly curious as to how strict they are to adhering to those requirements or if there is flexibility?
You are in like mutha fukn Flynn. Don't even worry about the requirements those are only for white males...srs. If you are halfway competent they'll treat you like a superstar. Do it brah
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
i'm black so....does that count? I've got a 4 year degree (BS in Biochem) but I don't quite meet the requirements for the jobs available. For many of the positions I qualify for maybe 3/4ths of the requirements. I was mainly curious as to how strict they are to adhering to those requirements or if there is flexibility?
If they are general open to the public jobs then IDK that they even know your race and a lot of interviews are telephone now. IDK if there are special job hiring authorities for minorities, I searched and dont see it. You could try to put some kind of hints on your resume though if you were in the african history club or some chit. There is a part to provide your race, I think that is just for tracking stats and think that HR is not supposed to look at it but who knows if they do see it and give unofficial preference.

Important thing is to understand the process - first the applications go to HR, they screen and see if you meet the requirements of the job. Then they "refer" the applications that meet the requirements to the hiring manager (the actual boss) and they select who to interview and who they hire.

The first part can be very hard, HR doesnt know the job and is lookign for whatever reason to throw out applications, if you dont include a document or if something is unreadible they will just throw out your application, not contact you for clarification or to resend it.

The resume is a whole world in itself, I seen people with 8-15 page federal resumes which is acceptable. You are suppose to write and overstate your experience so much so that HR sees it and sees you as qualifying. You have to almost copy the job requirements into your resume. If they use keywords make sure that is in your resume. Go look up some examples for federal resumes and go read the reddits for usajobs, if your chit isnt on point you will get nowhere.
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Originally Posted By Beararms⏩
You dont have to be prior service but good luck beating out people who have prior service experience. They will get chosen 95% of the time. 100k dollar jobs are there but you need the experience. You wont see 100k until you are at a GS-13 rank, it also depends on where you are working at. Cost of living is factored in.

If you are a woman/minority you do get some preference points. Degree helps big time too.
I have no idea how those GS rankings work but the positions i'm looking at say they're GS 12 and i'm in San Diego.
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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
If they are general open to the public jobs then IDK that they even know your race and a lot of interviews are telephone now. IDK if there are special job hiring authorities for minorities, I searched and dont see it. You could try to put some kind of hints on your resume though if you were in the african history club or some chit. There is a part to provide your race, I think that is just for tracking stats and think that HR is not supposed to look at it but who knows if they do see it and give unofficial preference.

Important thing is to understand the process - first the applications go to HR, they screen and see if you meet the requirements of the job. Then they "refer" the applications that meet the requirements to the hiring manager (the actual boss) and they select who to interview and who they hire.

The first part can be very hard, HR doesnt know the job and is lookign for whatever reason to throw out applications, if you dont include a document or if something is unreadible they will just throw out your application, not contact you for clarification or to resend it.

The resume is a whole world in itself, I seen people with 8-15 page federal resumes which is acceptable. You are suppose to write and overstate your experience so much so that HR sees it and sees you as qualifying. You have to almost copy the job requirements into your resume. If they use keywords make sure that is in your resume. Go look up some examples for federal resumes and go read the reddits for usajobs, if your chit isnt on point you will get nowhere.
jobscan.co is a good tool to compare your resume to the job description. It uses the same AI/key word recognition and gives you suggestions to increase the hit rate.
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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
The resume is a whole world in itself, I seen people with 8-15 page federal resumes which is acceptable.
wow really? I was always taught that a resume should be no more than 2 pages (1 page is preferable) The resume I used for my current job could have been about 4 pages, but a lot of it were jobs from YEARS ago (entry level stuff) that had nothing to do with the current position i'm applying for. I mean, will they really care that I was a lab tech my senior year of HS (almost 15 years ago)?
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
wow really? I was always taught that a resume should be no more than 2 pages (1 page is preferable) The resume I used for my current job could have been about 4 pages, but a lot of it were jobs from YEARS ago (entry level stuff) that had nothing to do with the current position i'm applying for. I mean, will they really care that I was a lab tech my senior year of HS (almost 15 years ago)?
Ain't nobody reading a resume longer than 2 maybe 3 pages.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
wow really? I was always taught that a resume should be no more than 2 pages (1 page is preferable) The resume I used for my current job could have been about 4 pages, but a lot of it were jobs from YEARS ago (entry level stuff) that had nothing to do with the current position i'm applying for. I mean, will they really care that I was a lab tech my senior year of HS (almost 15 years ago)?
no - they won't care. two pages MAX and leave off the chit that isn't relative to your field or "career" (i.e. the lab tech job or "worked at subway through college")
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Program management and I'm prior military.

But of the 8 people I supervise, only 2 are prior military. Almost all of them make six figures or close to it.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
....and do you have to be in the military to apply to these jobs and if not, is someone at an advantage if they are associated with a branch in the military?
I work for one of the alphabet soup agencies under the DOJ. No you don’t have to be in the military although some agents were. You get veterans preference points on your application.

Your average applicant has a bachelor’s degree/master’s degree and military/local LE experience.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
I have no idea how those GS rankings work but the positions i'm looking at say they're GS 12 and i'm in San Diego.
GS-12 in SD tops out around $111k at Step 10, Step 1 is around $86k. Takes 20 years to hit step 10, so if you want $100k of the rip you have to be at least a GS-13 in San Deigo, not many of those overall
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Originally Posted By knightofday⏩
GS-12 in SD tops out around $111k at Step 10, Step 1 is around $86k. Takes 20 years to hit step 10, so if you want $100k of the rip you have to be at least a GS-13 in San Deigo, not many of those overall
I broke $100K at GS-12 Step 1 because of LEAP and locality pay. $100K off rip is attainable pretty fast with 1811 positions.
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WM district managers make $135K, you wot mate ?
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holy fuk a bunch of retards itt.https://www.usajobs.gov/
There it tells you what the job is, what the requirements are, and how to apply! Probably a bit more trustworthy than some fatass on the misc
oh and also you can google the salaries!https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-over...eral-schedule/
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
wow really? I was always taught that a resume should be no more than 2 pages (1 page is preferable) The resume I used for my current job could have been about 4 pages, but a lot of it were jobs from YEARS ago (entry level stuff) that had nothing to do with the current position i'm applying for. I mean, will they really care that I was a lab tech my senior year of HS (almost 15 years ago)?
Government resumes are different. The sections describing your work place experience is in paragraph format. It's extremely weird and extremely retarded. I feel like they don't even read it till you're in front of them. I've handed people my 'government resume' and 'regular resume' in-person before. So far they've all went straight to regular resume because the bullets make life easier.

But I was told, when you submit online it should be the government style resume.
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Originally Posted By AJ1528⏩
I broke $100K at GS-12 Step 1 because of LEAP and locality pay. $100K off rip is attainable pretty fast with 1811 positions.
I have no idea what any of that means, lol.
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Originally Posted By knightofday⏩
Step 1 is around $86k.
I'm okay with that. I'm making about 75-77k depending on how much overtime I do but there's no room for growth because its healthcare so its just a "stagnant" job unless I go back to school and get more degrees/certifications. It would still be a step up for me.
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