So about 5 years ago I internally was the only candidate who applied for an IT job. Only person interviewed. Still took HR about a month and a half to spit out that I was qualified so my boss could offer me the job.

Fun part was when the position was vacant I was doing the job "to keep everything moving". The powers that be don't pay you both salaries.

All of that was when the HR system was internal to the agency. With the consolidated system now I would guess that efficiency has went down.