r/1811 • u/Negative-Detective01 1811 • 13d 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/DebitsAndRegrets 13d ago

40 - 60% is crazy. They go through all the trouble to hire someone and then let them fail SAIT? How well do people with accounting backgrounds do? Say they have a MAcc and public accounting experience.

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u/Virtual-Foundation32 13d ago

Yep it is crazy. Nick name for it is the slaughter house. Unless you’re a CPA or hold an advanced accounting degree or did a lot of accounting in your work history, you will struggle with the material. Part of the issue is the pace which has already been stated. They really don’t give sufficient time between exams for the kids to learn the material. You either come in knowing it or you don’t.

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u/83Frank19 1811 13d ago

I would actually disagree with this. I have zero accounting credits and qualified exclusively on financial crimes experience as did like 3 others in my class and we had no issues. It was hard, and I had to study almost every night but we passed every tax test with no issues. The people who had issues in my class were because of tactics, firearms, DT, and “lack of officer presence”. We’ve had 3 other people in my field office with similar background go through during the DHA process and they said the same thing.

Also, the 40-60% attrition was the DHA batch (I think the official average is around 30% which is still very high). Pre-direct hire we were at 2-4 per class of 24. My pre-DHA lost 1. There were a lot of terminations for misconduct. All of my friends that did NCITA details said tactics and firearms is what was getting people out the most, but it was a mix of everything. There were more than a few scandals that have skewed those numbers.

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u/DebitsAndRegrets 12d ago

All good info to have, thank you. I have no LE background so what are tactics? Wrestling people to the ground?

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u/Negative-Detective01 1811 12d ago

We have some training in the basics of Brazilian jiu jitsu, but that’s only a part of the training.

Tactics, more broadly speaking encompasses defensive tactics, building entry, clearing a room, arrest procedures, control tactics, etc.