by PsyGuy » Thu Mar 17, 2016 4:36 am
@kris10msmith
From your perspective the difference between a call list and a referral list is very little. When an admin (some principals pass along their EAS credentials to their AP, etc.) wants to 'finalize a list' they push a button that creates a pdf document for the admin, it also activates the automatic email function in EAS that results in candidates getting an email. Sometimes though you will see candidates thinking EAS is having a meltdown because they will receive multiple EAS referral notifications for the same job and same day, this is an admin who is basically brainstorming, sometimes they will close each of those referrals resulting in automated "not selected" emails. You have that happen 3 times in one day from the candidate perspective and it can be stressful.
This however isnt the only way an admin can create their call list (which is the actual list the admin will use for contacting candidates), they can go into EAS and copy and paste names and contact information into an application like "word", print that and contact candidates, and the candidates get cold called without the EAS email notification of a referral list because the principal never 'finalized' the list in EAS. In the same manner an admin doesnt even need to copy and paste, they can search for candidates in EAS make a draft list, and just make calls from the computer screen, again without ever finalizing the list, again resulting in no EAS email.
Be on the lookout on your phone for an international incoming call on your phone even during testing, if you get that call tell your hallway monitor you have an emergency phone call. You need to way the risk of those consequences against this job, which could literally be filled within hours, as an admin moves down the interview list. Then again you could take that risk for little more than a secretary or AP calling to schedule an interview at a later time (in which you might be the 15th or 20th, or last interview, that never materializes), its a CBA (Cost-Benefit Ana1ysis) only you can make.
Lastly, as an aside, if this type of behavior and general policy and procedure chaffs you or rubs you the wrong way, this isnt the service/job for you, many of our campuses have some degree of what I call ''GOT'' (Game of Thrones) type drama, its just the way its done in a system that has not evolved much from how things were done in the lats 80s/90s. Some complexes are better, especially the ones in PAC that have higher turnover and have more or less streamlined their recruitment and assistance process because they do it more often, compared to EUR complexes that largely receive transfers who are assumed to know how the system works, and there is little to no formalized system in place for noobs, because a CONUS hire to those areas is relatively uncommon. Still those are very broad generalizations SK was a mess (still is, but everyone quieter about it) with their GOT drama, and some places like OKI have it down almost to a science because that complex in general is a revolving door of PCSs. Then you have complexes like Italy that are basically "Hotel California" that everyones wants to transfer to, and they get there and they can never leave because there they arent hardship and their CAT priority never gets high enough in the new transfer system (with its low number of transfers) to get out.