U.S. gov. Jobs... Veterans vs. The Disabled

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From what I read, when hiring for a position in the government, that have the choice to hire competetively (veterens get a preference here) or non-competetively (schedule A: intellectual, physical or psychiatric disabilities, AS goes here).

Does anyone know if a veteren or a disabled person is most likely to get the job if they are equally skilled? The job I got and turned down... they were hiring 16 people so they could have used both hiring processes I guess.

The job I just applied for I did virtually everything before, might have a chance, but only hiring one person.

Funnily enough, these categories often are not mutually exclusive. Just thought I'd open with that.

You can consult the publicly available regulations, and that should elucidate your situation--keep in mind, though, that there is--literally--an army of disabled veterans out there (i.e., adding an additional 5 points to their candidacy), many of whom have minority status.

Are you familiar with the particular work site you're applying to, or are you doing this "blind" through USAJobs.com? Conventional wisdom holds that many jobs are spoken for at time of posting (i.e., internal hires),but they are posted anyway for the sake of transparency.

There are many of variables at play here, so it might be more productive to focus on making yourself a better candidate, rather than focusing on who is taking the jerb you want.

Good question and what your talking about is Federal Government jobs with Schedule A.

Typically Schedule A jobs require you to be involved with you're states vocational rehab program. Have you signed up yet? Schedule A is essentially a way for you to get a bump in the line. So what you do is apply for the job with your Schedule A letter attached.

You then call the number on the job and informed them you are Schedule A. Typically when Schedule A works right they pull your application right then so its a little easier. Now certain Federal Government jobs do not consider Schedule A in fact you might get a new person who doesn't want to deal with it.

Now I've had success getting a state job through vocational rehab in IL. So just keep up the good fight. Any other questions let me know.

Sadly though what we have more to worry about now to competing with cons for jobs since a Felon now automatically get a tax credit meaning free labor if a job hires them in the private sector. Thats why you see a lot of shady looking older people at McDonalds in the grocery store.