Originally Posted by
Indy
My friend got the interview invite today. Off the street active military.
What are the thoughts of the APC collective. If an active duty guy approaching 20 yrs gets an interview invite but hasn't set a retirement date, should he establish one prior to the interview?
Just curious, what did he put as his availability date? He may need a few months to get his retirement in order.
That is a tough one. If I were him, I may just pull the trigger and set a date. It seems like if you get the interview, they want you to go work for them and it may make it easier if he has a no joke availability date so that he can get a class date.
I am personally retiring next year at 20 years on the nose. I figure anything after that and I am essentially working for the government for half pay. I set my avail date based on taking terminal leave plus house hunting TAD for a total of 110 days.