What do they WANT?!

[sff_corgi_lj]

...This refers to the application you recently submitted to this office for the position shown below:

Position: Administrative Support Aid (Office Automation)

Series/Grade: 0303-05

Vacancy ID: 237382

Agency: Everglades National Park

Referred To: Everglades National Park

Duty Location: Homestead, FL





Your rating is based solely on your responses to the on-line questionnaire. You were rated eligible but your

rating was not within reach for referral to the employing agency.


(emphases mine)

Comments

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Insert "The F*ck?" here.

[davidjoates.livejournal.com]

Recruitment agencies like this generally grade applications on a numbered scale, say 1-100, and give various points for qualifications, work experience, previous job grade and how well you answered the questions on the application.

They have a line drawn below which score an applicant hasn't got the skills, abilities or education to do the job - score in this range and you are listed as not eligible and are automatically discarded.

Anyone above this line is regarded as eligible to be considered for the job, but won't necessarily get through as the employer will generally state that they only want to interview say, 15 candidates, due to time pressures.

So, if 100 applications pass the eligible score, the top 15 of this bracket will be referred for interview, while the other 85 will get the letter you got - that you could do the job but you didn't score within the top 15.

David.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Then, I think they need to change the wording on their form letter, as it does not convey anything even remotely resembling that fact.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I'd hate to see them recruiting for Burger King.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Sigh.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

uh..... they wanted a better or closer match to the target answers/number?
i dunno......

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

I suggest you get contact informatiion for the office to which you submitted the questionnaire, and ask for clarification [which I think should match davidjoates' explanation, but hopefully with particulars for your situation].
{{Corgi}}

[ashavah]

Oh, man. Sorry. *hugs*

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

I agree with davidjoakes, but I would also (because I am a bitch), say to them, "Does 'not within reach for referral to the employing agency' actually mean 'your score did not meet the particular employing agency's additional criteria'? And if so, could you SAY so? (And based on this letter, you have an opening available for a technical writer, and I would like to apply.)"

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

Yah! Like dat!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

It's the Feds (through a couple of layers of filter, too). There isn't anybody to ask.

[droops] Maybe it was some fiddly bits with purchasing or vehicles or something. I couldn't remember the specific app when I got this reply.

...it's only a lousy 5, though.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

a 5 is a foot in the door. Keep hammering at them, keep applying.