Hiring Bid Air Traffic Control Specialist - Trainee: FAA-ATO-18-ALLSRCE-57792

[jballen004 Tubadude2]

Ok I’ll attempt to change the subject:

Does anyone know how they determine how many applicants they take from each pool?

 

[Southern]

Ok I’ll attempt to change the subject:

Does anyone know how they determine how many applicants they take from each pool?

During my bid they tried to keep it about as even as they could around 50% pool 1 and 50% pool 2. Obviously one pool is always more saturated than the other so I believe there is a +/- 10% policy HR uses to keep the numbers fair depending on the number of applicants who qualify from each pool.

 

[Cmsgthokage]

Ok I’ll attempt to change the subject:

Does anyone know how they determine how many applicants they take from each pool?

It depends on how many they need to hire and they need to keep the pools within 10% of each other.

 

[jballen004 Tubadude2]

That’s good to know, thanks

 

[pinesolius]

 

[Allen1138]

Hedgehog, you spend 8 years in the airborne infantry with 3 combat deployments and then tell me you think I’m bullshitting the VA to get 80% and still able to pass the ATC physical. I’m pretty sure all the FAA needs me to do is be able to climb some stairs and sit in a chair all day...What a clown. And whoever said they don’t add points for being a veteran, that is LITERALLY what vets preference is. Are you all dumb or just uneducated?

That being said, there are an enormous amount of people abusing that system, but it kind of makes you a dick for assuming someone is one of those people based on literally zero information.

Okay so safe to say you've never probably had to ruck with 75lbs on your back for 12+ miles. Had to wear body armor for days, weeks, months at a time or anything else that is well known for breaking down soldiers/marines. Additionally, that means your PT standards are more lax. So basically you're the worst possibly qualified person to talk crap about disabled service members.

The VA where veterans literally die in the waiting rooms? Yeah..... the veterans are the bad individuals in that equation.

You do realize that most of those figures probably overlap right? And that there's this weird part of becoming a controller called a medical. Where you go see an AME, get screened and can be DQ'd for those specific disabilities?

Ofcourse you should receive money for disability when you make 6 figures. You gave up your body to serve your country. There's no "if you serve you're guaranteed a 6 figure salary" entitlement for serving in the armed forces, d******. That compensation is for injuries that are service connected. That income has no relevance to your federal CIVILIAN position with the FAA.

Thank you for having my back friend. THAT is what veterans SHOULD do. Not be jealous little cry babies touting their moral superiority for not gaming the VA system, and assuming they are the only ones noble and honorable enough to do so.

 

[MJ]

If you want to talk about anything unrelated to this hiring bid, create a new topic in the appropriate forum.

 

[J-one-s]

You might hear earlier than that if that January OTS bid really happens. Usually when a new OTS bid opens up they change everyone to Not Referred on USAJOBS, usually...

I think it's a USAJOBS thing. They're seperate entities and if they faa doesn't tell them to close it out, USAJOBS will wait about a year to do it. I applied for Alaska fss back in September of 2017, and in September of 2018 it said I wasn't selected. Bout a month later I got a TOL. HR said they just hadn't gotten around to it, and that there's a lack of communication between the two.

 

[ATCHopeful]

I think it's a USAJOBS thing. They're seperate entities and if they faa doesn't tell them to close it out, USAJOBS will wait about a year to do it. I applied for Alaska fss back in September of 2017, and in September of 2018 it said I wasn't selected. Bout a month later I got a TOL. HR said they just hadn't gotten around to it, and that there's a lack of communication between the two.

Correct. Never count on USAJobs. I've been selected for jobs I never interviewed for, I have been not referred for jobs I was called with an interview offer the same day. It's a crapshoot.

 

[Muckstic]

5 applicants remain from FY14, 25 from FY15, 452 from FY16 and 445 from FY17.

Are there updated numbers for how many applicants are still waiting from previous bids?

 

[Shawshanked]

We all just sucked so much they probably needed another bid as soon as possible.

 

[TushingPin]

Not directly related to this bid, but definently could impact it. Anyone know what's happening at the academy with the government shutdown? If the academy is shut down too long itll mess up tols.

 

[ChuckMastaT]

Not directly related to this bid, but definently could impact it. Anyone know what's happening at the academy with the government shutdown? If the academy is shut down too long itll mess up tols.

Yeah, I read they just send everyone home if it’s longer than a few days. After that idk. Assume you start over

 

[Allen1138]

One of the department heads in the federal building I work in told me the FAA was already funded through next September so the shutdown “shouldn’t” affect them. Not sure how true that is?

 

[Maintainvfr]

One of the department heads in the federal building I work in told me the FAA was already funded through next September so the shutdown “shouldn’t” affect them. Not sure how true that is?

Not true at all. They passed an FAA reauthorization bill, which basically gives the agency authority to keep operating. They need funding as well, which we don't have

 

[jballen004 Tubadude2]

Info I've heard:
6,825 total applicants.
2017 had 11,716 applicants, 5,383 were qualified, 4,528 were referred. 3,058 took the ATSA. Hiring goal was 1701 and thus far 1786 have been hired.

Hiring goal for FY19 is 1,431.

5 applicants remain from FY14, 25 from FY15, 452 from FY16 and 445 from FY17.

What does it mean when you say they are remaining? How will that effect this bid?

 

[blockdenied]

What does it mean when you say they are remaining? How will that effect this bid?

Not sure how those numbers make sense cause honestly why are we getting another OTS bid in January so soon? And I thought FAA hasn't been making their hiring targets....

 

[Muckstic]

Not sure how those numbers make sense cause honestly why are we getting another OTS bid in January so soon? And I thought FAA hasn't been making their hiring targets....

Those numbers are from July.

 

[tunwno]

TOL ROLLING OUT

 

[jballen004 Tubadude2]

TOL ROLLING OUT

You serious Clark?