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There is red tape, yes, but there are upsides to doing contract work for them too. The sheer scale of impact is daunting. Millions of people looking for work an

There is red tape, yes, but there are upsides to doing contract work for them too. The sheer scale of impact is daunting. Millions of people looking for work and you help them figure out the areas their recommender system needs improvement? That's tens of thousands of homes that now have employment where they wouldn't have. Just think of the cascading impact. I don't know how to do it in the US, but in Canada you should be able to get these types of short-term gigs if you do a bit of networking in Ottawa and mention that you're a specialist in X, and that you want to help out here and there to give back. Wont take long. People want to bring in experts that will take occasional lower pay for impact. Edit: Also, the servers are BEEEEFY, haha. They might be cloud first these days, but when I was there it was still all on-premises and man alive are those machines huge.

mabub24 5y ago
I think the Public Service in Canada also suffers from extremely opaque hiring practices. Unless you're aware of what they're looking for in a resume or the PS style cover letter, you're just sending in your resume to the void. FSWEP is the unofficial actual hiring route. Then the average time for a lot of hiring outside of getting "bridged in" is 9 months or more. Most people find that absurd. I do know some CCs and branches are trying to make changes but the PS in general is an absolute dinosaur for hiring and shows no signs of improving to match the bleed they'll have as people start retiring out.
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  > Then the average time for a lot of hiring outside of getting "bridged in" is 9 months or more I recall someone I hired had also applied for a government job while completing his degree. They called him back a little more than a year after. Of course, his salary out of college was 4x what they were offering but can you imagine what candidate the government ends up with? The people who are still looking for a job in tech a whole year after graduation…
- 3pt14159 5y ago
  Yeah I don't know what it's like going in the front door. I just sounded smart at a lunch with someone that worked for the Prime Ministers Office. When they were having trouble with something I got a really random email haha.

mabub24 5y ago

I think the Public Service in Canada also suffers from extremely opaque hiring practices. Unless you're aware of what they're looking for in a resume or the PS style cover letter, you're just sending in your resume to the void. FSWEP is the unofficial actual hiring route. Then the average time for a lot of hiring outside of getting "bridged in" is 9 months or more. Most people find that absurd. I do know some CCs and branches are trying to make changes but the PS in general is an absolute dinosaur for hiring and shows no signs of improving to match the bleed they'll have as people start retiring out.

908B64B197 5y ago
> Then the average time for a lot of hiring outside of getting "bridged in" is 9 months or more I recall someone I hired had also applied for a government job while completing his degree. They called him back a little more than a year after. Of course, his salary out of college was 4x what they were offering but can you imagine what candidate the government ends up with? The people who are still looking for a job in tech a whole year after graduation…
3pt14159 5y ago
Yeah I don't know what it's like going in the front door. I just sounded smart at a lunch with someone that worked for the Prime Ministers Office. When they were having trouble with something I got a really random email haha.