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Fedworld provides government information and resources for consumers. Find a Federal Government Job Search for open Government Jobs Updated Daily Top Government Web Sites Gain access to key agency and topical site Search for Government Research & Development Publications Locate Scientific and Technical Publications from ALL Government agencies at www.ntis.gov Locate Key Government Science and Technology Web Resource Sites Provides the Scientist, Engineer, and Techno-minded citizen with easy, one-step access to valuable U S Government resources at www.scitechresources.gov/ Search FirstGov Search 30 Million Government Web Pages Internal Revenue Service Locate IRS archived Forms and Publications through Fedworld Supreme Court Decisions Search and view full text of Supreme Court Decisions issued between 1937 and 1975 Try simple job title words: computer, janitor, auditor, etc. However the government can come up with some interesting job titles, so you might want to be creative in what search terms you use. The "*" wild card character works great for this: for instance, scien* will fetch scien science sciences scientific and scientist. While many job areas will only have one or two listings, others, will have dozens. In these cases, try adding a second word - computer adjacent specialist - to narrow the search. Series numbers: for every job title, OPM assigns a number to it. You can always tell if you are with a bunch of Federal workers when you hear them talk about series numbers. "I used to be a 0335, but I moved to 0334 a year ago." You can browse a list of series numbers/job titles to find a number. To do a series search, just search for the series number. Doing a search on 1550 will find you all of the computer scientist positions, for instance (and perhaps other positions that might have 1550 in a contact phone number!). Series and Grades: If you REALLY know how the Government personnel system works, you can get quite fancy and also search on a series and a specific grade (a grade is at what level most government employees salaries are set at. Grades are numbers 1 through 15). To do this, do a search like: 1550 [adjacent to] 15 or "1550 15" This would find all computer scientist positions posted at the grade 15 level. Top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Search Notes Currently, the state search doesn't work all that well - specially for specific states - VA, WA, OR, CO - are trouble states for this service. This database is a full text search - every search looks for the word in every bit of every announcement. That means if you search for VA, you are going to find a lot of announcements from the Department of Veterans Affairs because they start their announcement numbers with VA! Also many announcements are missing state abbreviations. Sigh. We suggest that you search on large city names in these cases. Otherwise, hang in there and hopefully we can find a technical fix in the near future! Top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Remote Windows! Viewing announcements in a remote window is a powerful feature for users who have access to large, hi-resolution, monitors. When this option is selected, once the hit list is returned, selecting any of the announcements will open a new web browser window with the contents of the announcement. Selecting a different announcement from the hit list will display the new announcement in the second window. This allows users to quickly browse through a hit list without having to use the back button to return to the hit list. For real power users, there is yet a third option: searching from a third remote window! This option is available from the hit list page if you have selected to view announcements in a remote window. Selecting this link will open a third browser window that contains the normal search dialog. Conducting a search from this new window will send a new hit list to the original window.

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