I am helping a family member apply for a position at a VA hospital and one of the required documents is the SF-50 form. The job description states that this form may not be required for all applicants and we assumed that since she has never been a federal employee (and thus has never had a SF-50 Form) that there would be no SF-50 requirement. The problem is that her application is marked as "Incomplete" because she hasn't submitted this non-existent form and there isn't any obvious way to complete the application without it..
Does this mean that they are only hiring previous federal employees? Or does she need to submit a form with "N/A" in every box except for her name & address? Or is there something else that this online application will accept in lieu of an actual SF-50 form?
We're paranoid about this because I was once declared ineligible for a high 5-figure position with another federal agency because I didn't submit my drivers license information (they didn't ask for it - they only asked if I was licensed but not for the actual documentation). I assumed that I could provide that at any time they requested it or at an interview, but that was enough to trash my application. So now I assume nothing when it comes to an online government application...
Does this mean that they are only hiring previous federal employees? Or does she need to submit a form with "N/A" in every box except for her name & address? Or is there something else that this online application will accept in lieu of an actual SF-50 form?
We're paranoid about this because I was once declared ineligible for a high 5-figure position with another federal agency because I didn't submit my drivers license information (they didn't ask for it - they only asked if I was licensed but not for the actual documentation). I assumed that I could provide that at any time they requested it or at an interview, but that was enough to trash my application. So now I assume nothing when it comes to an online government application...
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