Forestry Worker: Requirements -Must have 4 years experience in Forestry, Fishery and National Park environments -Must have 4 year degree in Forestry Science -Must have PMP certification -Must have 7 years experience leading Emergency Response/Wildland Fire unit -Must have experience in Data Analysis and website design (why??? Why the fuck is that related?) -Must have website design engineer experience (again) -Must have 10 years of mechanical engineering experience Salary: GS-03: $28,000
This is why nobody takes USAJobs seriously.
You know what I honestly think that these jobs are probably written for somebody who's been identified for the position already and they're just writing up the skills that they have. by law companies and the government have to post the job. My brother works for a consulting firm that works for the government and he said he had to go through all this bullshit in order to get his new job because they had to post it first. the job was his but they had to do it. He was getting nervous because the job he had previously was going to end because it's a contract job and they were dicking around with interviewing a bunch of people they weren't going to hire but because of laws they had to still do it. I wish they would just stop that stupid fucking rule and just not post the jobs and that'll be that.
it's funny I was looking to work on a fire crew and they wanted the same stuff, all this experience and what not. it's like assholes I'm a monkey on this job, I'm only here because I want the big pay. you tell me to go take my pulaski tool and dig a line that's 30 fucking feet long, that's the extent of the requirements. I need to be able to bend over and swing an ax. I don't need a degree, I don't need to be a former airborne ranger, and I don't need to have prior firefighting experience. Pretty much I have to be able to breathe air, walk and swing something.
"Nepotism" is safer, less trust is needed for the randos. It's just what works, saves time and energy for hiring "teams"
Some people may have all the qualifications yet stink of bad persona. Cliques survive because they pre-select for hidden attributes, this helps them maintain a sense of power & stability in the realm they govern. Ya can't just put out a list of "hey do this stuff and you're good" if an untrustworthy individual will end up deeply exploiting that set.
The only strategy I've seen repeatedly succeed against this is the strat of overachieving to the point of excessiveness. These individuals end up staying at the job longer (and subsequently network with everyone, even beyond the job's range), absorbing more of the skill base because of the prolonged time and effort, and hence, "level-up" in that realm OR take those skills to the next job. Anyone just coasting by can be detected, and if their personality is shit, it's a psychic weight on management. Like it or not, the psychic weight affects every individual that they come in contact with, and reflects on the business.
I hate to say it, but from my experience, it's very, VERY much attitude based. People that have their own stuff going on, CAN keep to themselves but are also willing to share, with a get up and "do something" attitude will get hired, will find good jobs that fit them, etc. Laze is dead weight, and right now because of the economy, it's too risky to take on those assets!
Otherwise, yes, I think the econ and covid "bailout" loans (PPP) are seriously messing with hiring corpo wise. Then wring in the "message" of the LGBT acceptance zee/zir BS (at the corpo level) and the system's wrapped itself in a plastic bag slowly running out of oxygen
I guess maybe the only ones that'll take risks on new hires will be temp agencies just needing to fill a gig for a day or two. That's how I got all of my jobs starting out. Just going to an agency saying I need to work and they would find me something. Half the times it would just be folding envelopes. Horrible work but if you need to work you need to work. Finally in my late twenties l scored a corporate job that I stayed at for 15 years. But corporate world is annoying especially when it's slowly becomes automated and your job becomes redundant.
your last paragraph really describes a meritocratic system. we're past that besides highly technical jobs / contract work. these days the system is plagued with gibmedats that will call out for false insurance claims, lie and cheat and steal and backstab coworkers, therefore systems in the in-group auto-generate strategies to defend against general degeneracy. this is why it seems overly "selective"
Interesting, so you get Johnny Shlomo who goes on to the fire line, works for 3 days and then fakes a slip/fall, sprains an ankle then says he wasn't trained properly, then tries to get workman's comp for the entire summer. There was a guy in my old job who was like that. he would go out on lunch, eat drugs and come back in completely high. one time he crashed a forklift and said he hurt his back severely. That asshole didn't come to work for 6 months, he was on workman's comp. Pissed everyone off in the group tremendously. When he did come back in though the boss found the slightest thing he fucked up on and wrote him up three times, finally got him fired. I can see how they want to keep it closed circuit, they don't want to deal with the hassle. But not everyone can be a bagger at a grocery store. Sometimes employers just have to take chances and maybe by the work they can build someone's character.
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