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Post by traceb on Sept 22, 2009 10:18:21 GMT -5
when I talked to HR last Friday I was told that this week I would receive additional information and an "online background check." Never heard of an online background check. Anyone know what that is?
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Post by jerseymom on Sept 22, 2009 12:05:46 GMT -5
It's called e-Qip(Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing). You fill out a bunch of forms and print out a signature page which has to be mailed to headquarters or wherever. PLEASE KEEP A COPY OF ALL FORMS YOU FILL OUT!!!! Sometimes your forms get lost.
The forms are not hard, there's just a lot of them. General background info only.
JM
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Post by ed on Sept 22, 2009 14:17:24 GMT -5
It takes about two hours and will require zip codes and confirmation references, so be prepared when you sit down to complete the form. I just recently did one and am wondering if it will be needed again...oh well at least it was in the recent past and I will be prepared.
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Post by traceb on Sept 22, 2009 14:46:36 GMT -5
What's the purpose?
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Post by traceb on Sept 22, 2009 16:37:31 GMT -5
How long does it take to obtain this information and such? I still haven't received my re-imbursement from the August 13th, trip. I just still don't believe this and think they are going to say, ooops, sorry, we will withdraw the offer; after I have given notice and started to re-locate.
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Post by nonamouse on Sept 24, 2009 21:10:51 GMT -5
How long does it take to obtain this information and such? I still haven't received my re-imbursement from the August 13th, trip. I just still don't believe this and think they are going to say, ooops, sorry, we will withdraw the offer; after I have given notice and started to re-locate. One thing has nothing to do with the other even in the bizarro world of ODAR. Some clerk is dealing with your expenses who has nothing to do with the rest of the process. Actually there are other weird things going on at the agency regarding expense reimbursement that have the people who deal with such things in a major frazzle. There are expert witnesses nationwide who have not gotten paid in quite a while yet they must continue to travel and show up for hearings and pay their bills somehow. They are screaming pretty loudly at anyone connected with reimbursements about now, so your claim for a single trip while very important to you is not the only one in limbo. Small comfort to be sure if you want/need your money yesterday, but at least it isn't personal. Just some of the usual chaos. SATO travel can direct bill your flight for training to the agency if you don't have a government credit card in time. You will need the info from your packet (SOC and CAN). They will expedite the card, so on the 1st or 2nd day at your new office you need to fill out the application and watch the online presentation (how not to be a deadbeat basically) and pay attention to the boring details because they have a little quiz at the end that you must pass to be approved. You can then use the card for the hotel, meals and most other trip expenses including a cash advance to pay for incidentals like laundry or taxi. As for the additional "background" info requested, offers have been tendered and now everyone will submit everything short of DNA as they get their security clearance, IDs, etc. You only thought the paperwork was done, but at least the end is in sight. There will also be a call from an investigator (possibly not until you are at training) who will have to do a face-to-face interview with you before the security clearance is given. I found it a bit amusing that my interview didn't happen until I returned from training and had held my first week of hearings. I guess if I was a super spy it would have been a bit too late. |
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Post by traceb on Sept 25, 2009 9:35:39 GMT -5
I was actually being sarcastic about the travel claim. Sometimes I forget that sarcasm does not translate well in written form.
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Post by barkley on Sept 25, 2009 12:15:53 GMT -5
One thing to note is that different "pots" of money are involved and different people process it. Your travel reimbursement for the interview is separate from training dollars. Your travel order to go to ALJ training will be done in your local office. The AA can assist you in making arragments and mine did my voucher when I got back from training. I got the reimbursement for training fairly quickly because it went through regional office.
Check with your AA prior to going about what to put on the government card. Midway through training we were told to stop charging meals and just use it for the hotel. I don't know what the scoop was on that.
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Post by wilddog on Sept 25, 2009 20:42:29 GMT -5
One thing to note is that different "pots" of money are involved and different people process it. Your travel reimbursement for the interview is separate from training dollars. Your travel order to go to ALJ training will be done in your local office. The AA can assist you in making arragments and mine did my voucher when I got back from training. I got the reimbursement for training fairly quickly because it went through regional office. Check with your AA prior to going about what to put on the government card. Midway through training we were told to stop charging meals and just use it for the hotel. I don't know what the scoop was on that. -------- Good grief, Barkley, even a reasonably intelligent college kid could figure THAT out! ;D |
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Post by Legal Beagle on Sept 27, 2009 11:24:33 GMT -5
It took over a month for my voucher for the month long training to be approved due to a "coding error" that took two weeks to find, and more than two weeks to get someone to fix it. I finally got the check (not direct deposit) the day that the $5K+ bill was due to the govrnment credit card for the hotel.
SNAFU and Government are sometimes the same name for the same thing. If I had not been e-mailing and my AA calling on a daily basis, I probably still would not have been paid. Be diligent when it is your money - because nobody else is.
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Post by traceb on Sept 30, 2009 10:47:35 GMT -5
Has anyone received the e-mail with the online background check? I still haven't.
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Post by traceb on Oct 1, 2009 9:18:04 GMT -5
Ok I received it yesterday afternoon. It's long and detailed. They want the fingerprint cards, a release and 3 signature pages returned on or before Monday, October 5, 2009!!!!!
Here's the big question that I simply do not understand, why in the world would they not do this BEFORE they make offers? What if they see something in there that they don't like? Are they gonna say, hey sorry; we don't want you after all?
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Post by carjack on Oct 1, 2009 10:04:28 GMT -5
I'm still convinced that I didn't get an offer because my second toe is longer than my big toe. Too much sharing at the interview. Be glad you've already got the offer, let them do their investigation - no take backs!
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Post by marciabrady1977 on Oct 1, 2009 10:58:47 GMT -5
Carjack:
One should never wear open toed shoes to a job interview.
Fire your stylist.
Marcia
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Post by morgullord on Oct 1, 2009 11:48:36 GMT -5
Marcia, neither Carjack nor I wore shoes to the interview. Was it a mistake to put our feet up on the table?
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Post by traceb on Oct 1, 2009 12:53:38 GMT -5
Seriously, I really do not understand this. Suppose, hypothetically, that I suffer from some psychological disorder and occasionally forget to take my meds to keep it under control. When it is not under control, I tend to act irrationally. I don't have any such disorder, but just suppose. No one, up to this point, has asked me anything about my medical condition. There is a question in the check which asks about those types of conditions.
It just seems to me that the prudent thing to do would be, at some point in the numerous contacts with OPM and the Agency prior to being offered a position, someone would think those types of questions should be addressed. What's the point of asking them once an offer has been made and accepted? Why not just incorporate the online aspect into the pre-offer background check?
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Post by marciabrady1977 on Oct 1, 2009 12:58:57 GMT -5
Morgullord, Morgullord, Morgullord... Of course it is okay to put your feet on the desk during the interview if you follow my simple rules: 1. Properly pedicured feet only and 2. Only when wearing trousers Good grief, Morgullord. Between Carjack and his toe length oddity and your feet (which I'm assumed were NOT properly pedicured and resembled the hull of an old ship), no wonder you didn't get an offer. On the other hand, or foot as the case may be, my pointy toed couture pumps didn't help me out either. Let me think...I left the Louis Vuitton handbag at home...opted for a simple gold band on the left 4th finger as to impart a sense of stability without being ostentatious...and wore a tight fitting undergarment to avoid the dreaded visible pantie line. That must be it...it was so tight that my brain was oxygen deprived and I didn't make a good impression. Probably too perky and happy and far too peaceful. What a shame. Some folks just don't have a sense of style or a sense of humor. I still think we should have a Rejects Reunion. We're already unified on this forum so we could reunite! Manis and pedis for all. I'll leave the drinking to you, gentlemen! Ah, the ALJ Cadre suffers without us...wouldn't we be a hoot at training?!  Until next time... Peace Marcia |
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Post by carjack on Oct 1, 2009 18:13:21 GMT -5
See, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, the problem is when you explain to the interviewers what you're doing and why, it throws them off. Then the dreaded question raised by Traceb, i.e. is this a meds problem, immediately pops into their over-interviewed brains and they just decide not to decide on you.
Query to the board: was "stay cool" (as used by MB on several occassions as a sign off) a west coast thing or a countrywide phenon back when platforms and Angel Flight pants ruled? I think every entry in my high school yearbook ends with "stay cool."
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Post by marciabrady1977 on Oct 2, 2009 0:18:42 GMT -5
Carjack:
You may very well have just answered the question... when you so brilliantly stated they just decide not to decide on you. No real basis necessarily just a decision not to decide on a particular person.
About the staying cool part...very west coast...but also didn't we all just grow up with that? "Be cool" "You're cool" "Stay cool" ...
all of our yearbooks probably have those phrases.
As far as my interview went: one ALJ slept, the other yacked like we were old friends, and the "note taker" liked my shoes. I wasn't medicated...maybe I should have been...or they should have been...or we all should have been...
Go figure on any of it. Check out the insightful post by Zag79.
Be cool.
Marcia
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Post by morgullord on Oct 2, 2009 8:37:53 GMT -5
Marcia, I am quite proud of my size 15, hobbit-like feet! Now, the trousers thing is something else altogether. Maybe the kilt was a less than ideal sartorial choice.
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