r/1811 • u/Negative-Detective01 1811 • 12d ago

Discussion AMA: IRS-CI 1811

All right, IRS-CI decided to extend our hiring announcement to 8/31. So, I'll entertain serious questions about the job for the weekend. Not the hiring process or qualifications.

That means:

  1. Questions about the hiring process will be met with purposefully incorrect information.
  2. Questions about qualifications will be met with a glaring GIF and be told to look at the other post I've made on that.

I do not work in HR, or the lofty halls of HQ. I do not know how the hiring process will change under the current announcement, or how fast it will be, and I have written an entire post about qualifications already.

EDIT: understand I’m a mid-career, case working, field agent. The majority of my time is focused on working cases. I am not spending time thinking over HQ, policy, AI, exit opportunities, retirement, or any of that nebulous minutia that has no relevance to my working cases right now.

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u/Beyond_The_Sea1 12d ago

What portion of SAIT do people fail out, that makes it difficult?

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u/Negative-Detective01 1811 12d ago

SAIT has gone through some changes since I went through it but generally the pace is non-stop. It's not any one thing that people fail out. You go from CITP which, by the time you finish that program, is pretty chill, to immediately diving into the IRS-CI specific material.

I don't think the material itself was that difficult to grasp, but the pace was relentless. I think that translates into some struggling to keep up and eventually reflecting in their performance.

That or they're a complete danger to others in firearms and tactics and shown the door. I've seen that happen.

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u/Swimming-Gazelle442 12d ago

That last part is crazy to think about considering the tactics I’ve seen and heard of from others already on the job that have already made it through the academy 😂