Does anybody have any experience applying to government jobs?

[rw2]

As for "some truth," what is it you find not to be true?

It isn't that anything was outright false, just that it painted all people and processes in government with the same brush. My experience hasn't been nearly so monochromatic.

Another way to look at it is that your note is a useful primer for applying for any job with a large bureaucracy. That bureaucracy doesn't have to be the government. I've seen the kinds of behaviors that you warn about in every large, process driven company I've ever worked with as well.

 

[kingaira90]

The first thing to know and understand when you're applying for a goverment job is that long before your application is seen by anyone who knows what they're talking about, it's seen by people who know absolutely nothing.

I like how you put that, and sadly true at most companies where hr screens the resumes before a pilot in the hiring process sees it. Like the dc-8 or 747 experience resume that gets passed by for the dc-9 or 757 resume because the number is higher, and higher is better right? Sad but true.