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Applying for government jobs under Schedule A?
Lucid_Seraph
TealDeerMarylandRegistered User regular
TealDeerMarylandRegistered User regular
Hey y'all.
I have major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and ADHD. I live in the DC area, and I'm looking for a new job, and I noticed on USAJobs.gov that there's a lot of postings that would otherwise be closed to me (eg, they say "current gov't employees only" or w/e) have an exception for persons with disabilities. I need proper documentation of my conditions in order to qualify to apply to those positions. I'm working with my psychologist on this right now, but he's actually never done this specific thing before either, and USAJobs is... staggeringly unclear about this sort of thing. I was wondering if anyone else around here had gone through the same process, and if you could give me an idea of what resources to send to my psychologist so we can put something together? (Also, I can have my psychiatrist sign off on this too, if they're like "hurdurr a PhD isn't enough!")
Please no speculation! I'd prefer to hear from people who have either gone through this process themselves, or who otherwise have specific knowledge of what the letter should contain (eg, you worked as a hiring manager in the gov't or military).
I have major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and ADHD. I live in the DC area, and I'm looking for a new job, and I noticed on USAJobs.gov that there's a lot of postings that would otherwise be closed to me (eg, they say "current gov't employees only" or w/e) have an exception for persons with disabilities. I need proper documentation of my conditions in order to qualify to apply to those positions. I'm working with my psychologist on this right now, but he's actually never done this specific thing before either, and USAJobs is... staggeringly unclear about this sort of thing. I was wondering if anyone else around here had gone through the same process, and if you could give me an idea of what resources to send to my psychologist so we can put something together? (Also, I can have my psychiatrist sign off on this too, if they're like "hurdurr a PhD isn't enough!")
Please no speculation! I'd prefer to hear from people who have either gone through this process themselves, or who otherwise have specific knowledge of what the letter should contain (eg, you worked as a hiring manager in the gov't or military).
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Disclaimer: I've only been hiring board adjacent. However, it looks to me like the letter is pretty straight forward, and everything I found says that you don't even have to specify the disability.
It will show up as one of the required (or optional attachements) when you apply, so make sure you upload it to USA jobs and check all the right boxes.
No idea how many 'points' it gets you, but it sounds like a good way to get apps into the govie only listings.
Target GS7 positions with an undergraduate GS 9 positions with a Masters degree and GS 11 positions with a phd. If you are going for 12s, 13s and 14s you won't get in the door unless you have an MD, JD or the government is trying to recruit you.
It's a numbers game, when you see advice like keep at it. Understand you are going to end up applying for dozens if not hundreds of jobs before they talk to you, if you've got buddies in the fed talk to them, Schedule A means they can bring you on direct.
So much this. I have 10 point veterans preference and I've applied to about 100 jobs over the past 3 years and I've gotten call backs on 2 of them. Also the gov will occasionally be at hiring events as well so it might be worthwhile chasing those.