1. They move employees in groups (i.e., heads of offices, supervisors, regular folks going overseas, regular folks coming from overseas going stateside and last regular folks going stateside to stateside)
2. When it's your group, they post what is available and you have two weeks to "bid"
- First, you enter in to the computer the location and job description you want (there could be two San Diego's--one as one type of a job and the other as a different type)
- Second, you send off/attach a one page "resume" outlining why you are qualified for that type of job at that location
- Third, your immediate supervisor and your office head have to "sign off" on your requests
3. After the bidding closes you wait the obligatory two weeks, and sometimes longer, during which a team of upper employees discuss, evaluate, and decide on everyone within the group followed by an e-mail announcement (usually at 4:00 p.m. on a Friday, Washington, D.C. time--because they probably run for the exit door so as to not field or have to return any phone calls...well, that's the "story")
We looked only at a certain type of job, which gave us 15-20 location choices. We whittled away offices that we did not want and then cost of living or school districts we did not want. After that, we placed a bid for about 9-10 locations.
We got our #1 choice (mostly because other people don't want the location): China Lake, California! China Lake is a Naval Base, has one of the highest per capita of Master and Doctorate degree population, sits in the middle of the desert (aka Death Valley), and is surrounded by a civilian population/city of about 27,000 called Ridge Crest (and the next city is more than an hour)...where we will own our next house. We will arrive mid-July.
Exciting! Congratulations!
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