Originally Posted by 402DRVR

For what its worth I applied for over three years before getting the interview. I had a few buddies over there pulling all the strings they could that whole time.

I finally went to the Vets in Blue event in November and spoke with some of their recruiting folks. Basically what I was told is that once you apply and meet some sort of parameters your name goes to a third party who actually pulls names for interviews, a la US Airways. So basically its a lottery system. There may be some things that get your name pulled earlier, such as job fairs. I did get an interview and hired very shortly after the window opened post job fair.

I think lawyers have gotten in the way of the who you know factor in a lot of ways. Not sure if that's good or bad.