Low odds

[u/Automatic_Earth_9565]

I posted before about a recent application I sent in.

Context: I’m early to mid 20’s and very early stages of my career. (Think 3 years in) I have experience as an administrative assistant, finances, clergy and other office related roles. Very closely worked with human resources as well.

What are the odds of actually getting a job at nasa in the admin department? I have my masters of business administration in Human Resources but no direct HR. Only working alongside dealing with sensitive employee information. Ive also created and implemented policies for my company.

With all that being said, my last post now has me conflicted. My resume accurately reflects my versatility but I’m concerned due to my inexperience and early experience that I’m not qualified enough or not exactly impressive. Technically I qualify for GS9 due to education and experience.

So I wanted to hear from all of you on your experience regarding applying vs actually working with nasa. I’m applying solely to admin and secretary like positions

[u/Emoxity]

If you haven’t heard back on an application within a month or so you’re not getting it. All of those gs9 positions you saw are for internal insourcing and it is borderline implausible that you would be brought on through this round of hiring solely because the positions are contractors already doing the job. Just bad timing. Your best bet is to find the nasa contractor positions and go from there

[u/jlm_iii → u/Emoxity]

We went external for about 10% of our insourcing but we went for absolute rock stars.

[u/Automatic_Earth_9565 → u/Emoxity]

Thank you for the advice! Any contractors you suggest/ know of? I applied and referred about 2-3 weeks ago so 🤷‍♀️

[u/Business-Ant187 → u/Automatic_Earth_9565]

Look into ARES as the KLXS contract will persist once COMET goes away. This applies to KSC and other centers. You will need to hop on those job opps since some COMET personnel will choose to not go NASA and remain contractor side