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Panda_alley t1_is5guuv wrote

Going to give some contrarian advice. In my experience the best way to work on the hill is go do something else first that builds a network and puts you in hill staff orbit. When positions become open, use connections to get your application in front of an actual person.

Submissions via websites and job lists is virtually 0, I had interview hit rate of about 50% when going thru real people. Wasn't always the right fit but got the interviews.

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MorbiusMovieTime OP t1_is7xehh wrote

So someone else would give a recruiter your physical application and resume?

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Panda_alley t1_is7yiin wrote

No, more like you monitor the jobs list and use your network to get your application into the hiring manager. In the Senate in my experience (albeit a while ago) the staff manager plus LD or deputy CoS would be running the search

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MorbiusMovieTime OP t1_is85ivs wrote

how would your network get your application into the hiring manager?

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