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2025 Merit Hiring Plan

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Behnam Norouzi
2025 Merit Hiring Plan

How Federal Job Interviews Work

A federal job interview is not a conversation. It is an assessment. That distinction sounds minor until you walk in expecting the kind of back-and-forth exchange common in private sector hiring and find yourself facing a panel of three people reading questions off a sheet, taking notes, and offering almost
01 May 2026 5 min read
 Andrej Lišakov
TJO

What Is a Tentative Job Offer From the Federal Government?

You got the call. Or the email. The agency has selected you and is extending a Tentative Job Offer, a TJO in federal HR shorthand. Do not put in your two weeks' notice yet. That is not pessimism. It is how the federal hiring process works. The TJO is
29 Apr 2026 5 min read
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