Re: Wash DC Job Opening
The site says that I need to provide an SF-50 but I could find neither a link for filling it in online nor a link to a copy that I could print. What is it and where do I find it? Thanks. Government employees and ex-goverment types should be acquainted with the SF-50 or record of personnel action. This form is generated for promotions, step increases, etc, and has the person's Grade and Step along with what job they got it for. The employee gets a copy of it and should retain it. Non-government types applying for a position will need to show, through education and/or experience, they are equivalent to what is being posted for that job. Usually the vacancy annoucement has directions for what those equivalents are. Ex-government types who might want to get back into government service sometime in the future should look around to ensure you have one which shows your latest service grade and information. You never know when you might want to switch back into the government. Jim -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Wash DC Job Opening
SF-50 is a an internal personnel document that applies only to current or previous gov't employees. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/25/2006 at 07:31 AM, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Look out on www.usajobs.opm.gov The site says that I need to provide an SF-50 but I could find neither a link for filling it in online nor a link to a copy that I could print. What is it and where do I find it? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Wash DC Job Opening
At 05:50 PM 01/29/2006, you wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/25/2006 at 07:31 AM, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Look out on www.usajobs.opm.gov The site says that I need to provide an SF-50 but I could find neither a link for filling it in online nor a link to a copy that I could print. What is it and where do I find it? Thanks. Look here: http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/formslibrary.do?viewType=DETAILformId=1494EA39194E69A585256CFD0051B357 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- Steve Wiegand -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Wash DC Job Opening
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/25/2006 at 07:31 AM, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Look out on www.usajobs.opm.gov The site says that I need to provide an SF-50 but I could find neither a link for filling it in online nor a link to a copy that I could print. What is it and where do I find it? Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Wash DC Job Opening
I understand that you might be interested in an IBM Mainframe Systems Programming opportunity. I am currently looking for someone with MVS (Os/390-z/OS) experience that would be interested in working in San Antonio, Texas. The environment is County Government. The platform is z/800 running OS/390 with CICS. The future is z/OS and CICS-TS. Would you like to help us get there?? If you are interested, call me and/or e-mail me a copy of your résumé. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Wash DC Job Opening I'm willing to relocate to almost anywhere in the USA. San Antonio is not on my short list of not there. Can you give me any more information on the position (and the company)? Will you get a bounty if I apply through you? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Marshall Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Wash DC Job Opening There is a job opening for a GS-10 ($49397-$64213 plus overtime) for a Production Control, JOB Scheduling/JCL/TSO/ISPF and plenty of batch work. Before you snicker give me a chance to give some food for thought. Working for the US Federal Government may not be your idea of a job but you may change your mind reading below. Let us say you are out of work SYSPROG, in your 50s, and heading to leave middle age. FACT: if you work for Uncle Sam all you need is 5 years and reach the age of 62 to retire. Sure the pension is not so great but during your employment you are covered by a GREAT health plan and you get to carry it into retirement at the same cost. Plus when you die, your spouse gets to keep it until he/she dies. There is no need for Medicare Part D for you get a prescription drugs in each plan. You get the 401K plus a small pension. OK, give you some real numbers. If you are ex-SYSPROG, then you could be a GS-10 Step 10. You can contribute $20K per year (before taxes) to your 401K, OPM kicks in 5% of your salary match, then remember you can do $5000 to your own IRA. In 5 years you have about $140K plus the earnings in the 401K and a small pension of 1% high 3 years salary x 5 years. Say you had served 4 years in the service, you can buy in for 4 more years at a cheap price and now you will have 9 years and not quite. Say we figure the high 3 salary as $70K you'd get $3,500 per year for the 5 years served or $6,300 for 9 years. This is more than enough to pay your Health Plan cost and have a bit left over. You'd be getting Social Security besides. You also have Life Insurance and it is reasonable. Hopefully you have those big 401K's, stock options, etc, from the companies that might have outsourced your jobs. Those with maybe prior government time, a few years in when you jumped out for the big bucks of the private world, would get a higher pension. The killer idea is that once in the government or back in the government you could compete for higher jobs a whole bunch easier. Also if you are now inside the government and die of the stress caused by your private job, your spouse automatically gets survivors rights and health care for the rest of their lives. Look out on www.usajobs.opm.gov and look for the Office of Personnel Management. The job is a GS-10 Computer Assistant (no snickering about the job title, the pay is the same as a GS-10 Computer whomever). Vacancy announcement 06-090-SMO. This is open to all sources, no previous government time required. Also in the application or resume, this is not like the private sector where you keep it to one page. US Gov't says the thicker the better. Spell out everything and if the announcement mentions, say RACF, then you say RACF. If you had ACF2, your say ACF2 (a RACF equivalent). If the HR folks want RACF and you say ACF2, no good. The position is with zSeries, z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, CICS/ADABAS, TSO/ISPF, using Tivoli Workload Scheduler. If you know Control-M, that is OK or any other package. Even if you do not know the package, you know the concepts. Remember this is a hands-on so if you were the SYSPROG who installed the package, you need to say you know how to actually schedule things because you probably trained the PCS staff. This is not assumed by the evaluators who might not have been SYSPROGs. As an aside, OPM is a fun place to work and much better than most other US Government agencies. So look at the long term view and maybe this is right for you. Jim Marshall -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Wash DC Job Opening
There is a job opening for a GS-10 ($49397-$64213 plus overtime) for a Production Control, JOB Scheduling/JCL/TSO/ISPF and plenty of batch work. Before you snicker give me a chance to give some food for thought. Working for the US Federal Government may not be your idea of a job but you may change your mind reading below. Let us say you are out of work SYSPROG, in your 50s, and heading to leave middle age. FACT: if you work for Uncle Sam all you need is 5 years and reach the age of 62 to retire. Sure the pension is not so great but during your employment you are covered by a GREAT health plan and you get to carry it into retirement at the same cost. Plus when you die, your spouse gets to keep it until he/she dies. There is no need for Medicare Part D for you get a prescription drugs in each plan. You get the 401K plus a small pension. OK, give you some real numbers. If you are ex-SYSPROG, then you could be a GS-10 Step 10. You can contribute $20K per year (before taxes) to your 401K, OPM kicks in 5% of your salary match, then remember you can do $5000 to your own IRA. In 5 years you have about $140K plus the earnings in the 401K and a small pension of 1% high 3 years salary x 5 years. Say you had served 4 years in the service, you can buy in for 4 more years at a cheap price and now you will have 9 years and not quite. Say we figure the high 3 salary as $70K you'd get $3,500 per year for the 5 years served or $6,300 for 9 years. This is more than enough to pay your Health Plan cost and have a bit left over. You'd be getting Social Security besides. You also have Life Insurance and it is reasonable. Hopefully you have those big 401K's, stock options, etc, from the companies that might have outsourced your jobs. Those with maybe prior government time, a few years in when you jumped out for the big bucks of the private world, would get a higher pension. The killer idea is that once in the government or back in the government you could compete for higher jobs a whole bunch easier. Also if you are now inside the government and die of the stress caused by your private job, your spouse automatically gets survivors rights and health care for the rest of their lives. Look out on www.usajobs.opm.gov and look for the Office of Personnel Management. The job is a GS-10 Computer Assistant (no snickering about the job title, the pay is the same as a GS-10 Computer whomever). Vacancy announcement 06-090-SMO. This is open to all sources, no previous government time required. Also in the application or resume, this is not like the private sector where you keep it to one page. US Gov't says the thicker the better. Spell out everything and if the announcement mentions, say RACF, then you say RACF. If you had ACF2, your say ACF2 (a RACF equivalent). If the HR folks want RACF and you say ACF2, no good. The position is with zSeries, z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, CICS/ADABAS, TSO/ISPF, using Tivoli Workload Scheduler. If you know Control-M, that is OK or any other package. Even if you do not know the package, you know the concepts. Remember this is a hands-on so if you were the SYSPROG who installed the package, you need to say you know how to actually schedule things because you probably trained the PCS staff. This is not assumed by the evaluators who might not have been SYSPROGs. As an aside, OPM is a fun place to work and much better than most other US Government agencies. So look at the long term view and maybe this is right for you. Jim Marshall -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Wash DC Job Opening
On 25 Jan 2006 05:31:41 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Marshall) wrote: There is a job opening for a GS-10 I was planning to apply for this job. I'm not so sure, now. Electronic application goes to a .org, not a .gov. SSN is a required field. ALL of the professional job counselors I've talked to say to never give SSN before at least the first interview; probably not until an acceptance letter is being discussed. I also love this phrasing on the how to submit your materials page: Providing your Social Security Number is voluntary, however we can not process your application without it. So I guess providing SSN is just as voluntary as applying for the job. I suspect that this would be deemed an illegal use of SSN by the gov't (which may be why they farmed out the processing of job apps), but I'm not in a position to fight it. It's a shame. It sounds like it could be a great job for me. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Wash DC Job Opening
We have a SYSPROG opening in San Antonio There is a job opening for a GS-10 ($49397-$64213 plus overtime) for a Production Control, JOB Scheduling/JCL/TSO/ISPF and plenty of batch work. Before you snicker give me a chance to give some food for thought. Working for the US Federal Government may not be your idea of a job but you may change your mind reading below. Let us say you are out of work SYSPROG, in your 50s, and heading to leave middle age. FACT: if you work for Uncle Sam all you need is 5 years and reach the age of 62 to retire. Sure the pension is not so great but during your employment you are covered by a GREAT health plan and you get to carry it into retirement at the same cost. Plus when you die, your spouse gets to keep it until he/she dies. There is no need for Medicare Part D for you get a prescription drugs in each plan. You get the 401K plus a small pension. OK, give you some real numbers. The position is with zSeries, z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, CICS/ADABAS, TSO/ISPF, using Tivoli Workload Scheduler. If you know Control-M, that is OK or any other package. Even if you do not know the package, you know the concepts. Remember this is a hands-on so if you were the SYSPROG who installed the package, you need to say you know how to actually schedule things because you probably trained the PCS staff. This is not assumed by the evaluators who might not have been SYSPROGs. Jim Marshall -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
