A few people expressed interest, so I recently made /r/WAStateWorkers. Hopefully it can become a hub for state employees and job seekers to ask questions and network, especially since not all of us live in /r/Olympia.

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MystifiedPeroxide t1_jbi4b5x wrote on March 9, 2023 at 5:03 AM

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Do people who work in school districts count?

olympic889 OP t1_jbi6fwz wrote on March 9, 2023 at 5:25 AM

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Replying to MystifiedPeroxide (#2,191,113)

Sure! School employees aren't technically state employees, but get similar health and pension benefits.

[deleted] t1_jbidjrx wrote on March 9, 2023 at 6:46 AM

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zihuatapulco t1_jbj4jdq wrote on March 9, 2023 at 12:37 PM

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Great idea.

Coppermill_98516 t1_jbjnjip wrote on March 9, 2023 at 3:06 PM

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Great idea!

J_Bright1990 t1_jbjovu0 wrote on March 9, 2023 at 3:15 PM

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As someone who has been trying to break into either King County or the state as a whole, this is fantastic. I'm going to sign up.

gaslancer t1_jbjs501 wrote on March 9, 2023 at 3:37 PM

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Department of health is hiring. Administrators. Health physicists. Take a look. Great job.

ElTardoDente t1_jbkkk5w wrote on March 9, 2023 at 6:35 PM

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Replying to olympic889 (#2,191,216)

How are they not technically state employees?

[deleted] t1_jbl2b9x wrote on March 9, 2023 at 8:26 PM

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Replying to ElTardoDente (#2,194,886)

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Wowue t1_jblh7ej wrote on March 9, 2023 at 10:00 PM

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The application status in my account was initially just, "Application Recieved." Now it updated to "Application Recieved, AGENCY NAME, and REQ. DATE JOB NO."

Does this mean someone from the agency has reviewed my app?

0sama_Di_Laudid t1_jbmdih9 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 1:55 AM

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Replying to ElTardoDente (#2,194,886)

They are public employees, but not employees of the actual state government. They are employees of their respective school districts

Noobinoa t1_jburcix wrote on March 11, 2023 at 9:43 PM

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Replying to Wowue (#2,196,280)

I don't think so. They'll run it thru the keyword search tool and get a list of passes, then a human looks at, as far as I understand.

It has been an issue sometimes that the HR people have a tighter filter than the hiring manager desires.

Not sure how to get around the human filter. It depends on the hiring manager, they really have to kick up a fuss sometimes to get the whole list of "meets minimum" candidates.

Wowue t1_jbusnjk wrote on March 11, 2023 at 9:53 PM

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Replying to Noobinoa (#2,210,593)

Thank for the insight! I made sure my all my responses had keywords from the job posting. How does the hiring landscape look right now for state workers?

Noobinoa t1_jbuvju9 wrote on March 11, 2023 at 10:15 PM

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Replying to Wowue (#2,210,638)

Depends on the department and division, really, but overall there are a lot of positions open. I work for DOH and they have openings. Might have some MA5 positions open. Good luck!