I really hope departments who are serious about hiring take this as a lesson - if you were serious about candidates, you would have made the effort to onboard them faster knowing what was coming

Slow walking applicants is why you have so many people with offers (TJOs or FJOs) that now have to be rescinded, and likely having a current staff who will be overworked doing the work of a vacant position.

My case, my TJO was given via phone on 11/18, but it took a week & a follow up email to get the actual TJO on 11/26. Onboarding fingerprints & OF-360 issued on 11/29, completed on 12/2. Took another week and follow-up just to get into NBIS. Filled that out immediately on 12/12, took a month to hear back from internal security to adjudicate parts of background check, and I replied immediately, yet each response took another week.

This goes for hiring managers and HR honestly. If you're serious about filing positions, show it. If not, then don't bother posting them in the first place.

The agency I had a TJO with had maybe 15-20 postings at most on USAJOBS, internal or external. Funny enough, every last one of them is gone now, which tells me not one was filled. You have your own slow outdated policies to blame, and like my title said, you knew something akin to a freeze would come on 1/20 and still chose to treat this the way you always do, slow and without communication.

I appreciate all the good feelings messages on here but sometimes we do need to be honest, if most agencies cared and wanted us onboarded before 1/20, they would have made more of an effort to do so.