eSignature Legitimacy for Job Applicant Rejection Letter in United States

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in this video we're going to cover the application statuses and notifications on usajobs we're going to explain what the status means and what could be causing the delays because it can be frustrating to one not understand what the status is and two watch it be frozen for what seems like forever before we get started you can help out by liking this video to help with the youtube algorithm also subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so you can be notified of all the new videos that are uploaded and share with anyone that could use this information to help explain what the application statuses and what notifications mean on jobs i need to explain where they come from or why they're even even on there they're designed to help you know where your application is in the process but they come from a requirement and it's the touch point requirement every recruitment is required to have four touch points the first one is the application received the second is notice of results the second or the third is a notice of referral and the fourth is the disposition so application received is automatic it's when you submit your application you will automatically get an email or a notification and your status will update to let you know that everything was received even after you get that if you could wait you know maybe to the next day call hr to make sure that everything came through because there are times that documents don't come through properly and people have missed out on opportunities because of that the notice of results is simply the were you found eligible or not and then the notice of referral is whether or not you were referred to the hiring manager for the possibility of an interview and disposition is whether you were selected or not what most people don't know is that the statuses on usajobs they're not updated through usajobs they're updated through the hr office on their side of the program and so as a step is completed on the hr side as in applications are reviewed and then the notice of results goes out there's a button that has to be clicked by that hr specialist to send out the notice of results to all the applicants and then the same thing with the referrals once all the certificates are built and issued to the hiring manager there's another button that has to be clicked for the status to update on usajobs to let you know that you're referred or not and then the final one is the disposition this is the one that gets uh left uh stuck for long periods of time and that is to let everyone else know that whoever didn't get a tentative offer the disposition lets everyone else know that someone else was selected and that is often delayed it's going to oftentimes be clicked once the applicant that was selected actually comes on board so it will be a long time before you get any updates there if you need help with the entire hiring process from start to finish check out our book federal hiring advice your guide to government jobs available on amazon the link to purchase is in the description below but for this video i'm just going to go through the common statuses and notifications and explain what they mean one by one so the first one is accepting applications this is when the job announcement is open and you're eligible to apply then once you apply that's when you're going to get a notification of application received then you'll get reviewing applications that's after the announcement closes the status on usajobs automatically switches to reviewing applications and that's going to be part of the time to hire metric that allows for 14 business or 14 calendar days to review all the applicants that have applied the next one could be hiring complete that's when everything is done all notices are sent and the recruitment is completely done there's a button it's a newer button in usa staffing which is the hr side of things that you click when everything is done so if you have an open announcement it's since it's relatively new i can almost guarantee that hr offices are not going back and hitting that button on older recruitments so you should see it more commonly on newer recruitments to be used but i i can almost guarantee that they're not being done retroactively job cancelled job cancelled is just as it says when an announcement needs to be cancelled there are a number of reasons why a job could be that there were no qualified candidates that the hiring manager decided they didn't like any of the candidates funding was pulled so the announcement had to be cancelled there was an error in the announcement so it needed to be cancelled there's a lot of different reasons for a job to be canceled and there should be a notice that's sent out when that happens and that will update the status of the your application then the rest of them have to do with your specific place in the process so if you're sent notice of results you're going to get a code that says you're qualified and if it was multiple grades or multiple locations it'll actually say that you're qualified at certain grades and it could even say you're disqualified at certain grades and so you want to pay attention to that every time it says that you're not qualified we have to put a code in and the code gives you a generic explanation such as you know didn't appear to have the specialized experience didn't include a required document didn't meet the area of consideration there's all kinds of reasons to not be qualified so you'll want to look at that code it has a an explanation in the email that you get to explain what that code means and if you think there's an error with that feel free to contact the hr person that's tied to that announcement and have them look and explain it because there are times that mistakes are made and if it's caught you know at that time you know pretty early then it can be corrected um the other thing to consider is sometimes uh you are found not qualified based on your own rating so based on the answers that you provided to the questionnaire if that's the case then there is no correcting that but you would find out through hr once you call them to look into that disqualification they would let you know that you rated yourself ineligible the next one would be if you're qualified but you're not referred so this happens with a couple different scenarios qualified but not referred could be on announcements that are open to the public to us citizens but they have veterans preference that applies so if you're not a veteran and you applied an announcement that's open to the public and it's not a direct hire announcement then veterans preference is going to apply which means that veterans have to be referred first so all non-veterans even if you're qualified even if you're the most qualified person that applies cannot be referred ahead of veterans so that's one reason where you would be qualified but not referred another one would be for the different best qualified well qualified the different criteria is there and that's going to be based on your answers to the rating questions when you take your assessment your questionnaire when you are asked questions that have you rate yourself from no experience to expert those scores will sometimes put you into a category of best qualified well qualified and that's how they're referred so everybody in the you know the highest category gets referred first and then everyone else would not be referred and that would be another reason to be qualified but not referred the next one would be qualified and referred that's just that you were found eligible and sent to the hiring manager for review that's when the hiring manager is going to look at the lists and decide who they want to do interviews on so the hiring manager doesn't have to do interviews on everyone they can pick and choose which cert they want to use so if the announcement was posted for multiple grades they can pitch pick which grade they want to use if it was multiple locations they can pick the location and then once they decide on a certificate they don't even have to interview everyone on the certificate because they can do their own best qualified rating criteria talked about that in one of my other videos about the interview process and that's how they're going to narrow down a list that has maybe you know more than 10 applicants for one vacancy they're well within their rights to narrow the list down so they don't have to do so many interviews then you're gonna have selected as a status that status should not automatically update before you're provided a tentative offer because what's gonna happen is the person selected is gonna get a call from human resources then they're going to get a tentative offer letter and when the letter is issued that's what triggers the person's status to be changed to selected and then you'll have not selected that's the final that's the disposition that's what lets everyone that was not selected know that someone else was selected and as i was explaining before that one is the one that's often delayed people will get stuck in a status of reviewing applications sometimes when the hr specialist is in a hurry they review everyone they issue the certs and they don't send the notifications out so that can be confusing sometimes that happens because they're under a pressure sometimes it happens because they don't want to get a bunch of emails uh once any once the notifications go out usually there's a lot of emails that come through from the applicants that aren't satisfied with their rating so there are some times that that certain hr specialists will do that sometimes you'll get stuck in a referred status so if you're referred and you are not selected for an interview by the hiring manager you won't hear anything until the disposition goes out and that you know being delayed a lot of times could cause some frustrations because of the way the statuses are updated at the hr office if you're sitting in referred for a really long time i would never just wait on one announcement or one application i would apply to as many as possible so you have multiple applications going at the same time and then not really pay attention to the statuses maybe check them every few weeks to see if there are any updates but don't take what the status says on usajobs as the actual status of your application because usajobs is only updated through the hr office through the buttons that they have to click in their program that are often overlooked or delayed and if you ever have any questions about the status of your application you should be able to contact the hr person that's the contact at the bottom of the announcement when you applied thank you for watching the video if you have any questions go ahead and leave them in the comments and i'll do my best to answer if you need to work one-on-one you can visit the website at .federalhiringadvice.com and we can schedule a time 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