2024-2025 Honors Attorney Program (BigFed, Non-DOJ) Forum

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone heard back from DHS/ICE OPLA?

Classmate was interviewed first round last week

[ByzforCivilization]

Has anyone heard back from DHS/ICE OPLA?

Yeah I interviewed with DHS a couple weeks ago.

[Choop]

I got a USAJobs notification for the FCC's Honors Program. I'm now looking for the listing on the USA Jobs sight but it's nowhere to be found.

Did other people see something similar? The email notification I have says they are accepting apps from Oct 10 - Nov 18.

[Anonymous User]

If I haven’t heard from FDIC at this point are we assuming it’s a no?

I wouldn't say so. They are definitely interviewing through this month.

[Anonymous User]

I heard that second round DOT invites went out this week

[Anonymous User]

Just wanted to add that I received a verbal offer from CFPB last week for their Office of Supervision Policy. I believe that every office is on their own timeline, and I confirmed that it is possible to receive offers from multiple offices for the CFPB Honors Program.

[Anonymous User]

If a particular honors program is your #1 choice, would telling the point of contact about an offer from a law firm speed the decision process up or do agencies not care about that?

Banking reg agency fwiw

[Anonymous User]

If a particular honors program is your #1 choice, would telling the point of contact about an offer from a law firm speed the decision process up or do agencies not care about that?

Banking reg agency fwiw

Not likely to help

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone heard any updates about second interviews with DHS OGC?

[Anonymous User]

Regarding DHS. I emailed to check about the second round since I hadn’t heard. They said I didn’t receive a second round interview and it was a “very competitive field.” So I assume second round interview notifications already went out.

[Anonymous User]

If a particular honors program is your #1 choice, would telling the point of contact about an offer from a law firm speed the decision process up or do agencies not care about that?

Banking reg agency fwiw

I think you can ask them what their timeline looks like as you have another offer with a deadline of [date], but they’re not likely to be able to change the timeline very much. There tend to be fairly strict procedures around hiring (welcome to the feds). It might depend a little on how many people they’re hiring - like there might be more flexibility for one slot than for multiple - and where they are in the interview process.

They are fairly likely to congratulate you on the offer and say there’s nothing they can do, though.

[Prosecutor]

Just wanted to add that I received a verbal offer from CFPB last week for their Office of Supervision Policy. I believe that every office is on their own timeline, and I confirmed that it is possible to receive offers from multiple offices for the CFPB Honors Program.

Did you do two interviews or just one round?

[Anonymous User]

Just wanted to add that I received a verbal offer from CFPB last week for their Office of Supervision Policy. I believe that every office is on their own timeline, and I confirmed that it is possible to receive offers from multiple offices for the CFPB Honors Program.

Did you do two interviews or just one round?

Just one round for Supervision, but I know other offices within CFPB conduct multiple rounds.

[Anonymous User]

anyone heard back about second round for DOL? i did a first round interview for the NY office a couple weeks ago, wondering if I'm out of the running or if it's just slow.

[Anonymous User]

If a particular honors program is your #1 choice, would telling the point of contact about an offer from a law firm speed the decision process up or do agencies not care about that?

Banking reg agency fwiw

I interviewed with the OCC and was told to let them know about competing offers if any came up.

[Harry4332]

Anyone hear back from OCC after callback interview?

[Anonymous User]

Real question, not trying to be political.

What are the implications for honors programs? Slashing? Rug pulling? Installing thousands of sycophants?

I imagine some agencies, OCC or FDIC for example, won't have much of a change. DOL maybe not as much.

[Anonymous User]

Any OCC updates? Any offers go out yet?

[Anonymous User]

Do we think the election will impact CFPB hiring? Project 2025 explicitly calls for them to shutter

[Anonymous User]

Any OCC updates? Any offers go out yet?

Also wondering this…

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone received an offer from the IRS National Office?

[Anonymous User]

Any info on FDIC movement?

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone received an offer from the National IRS office?

[Anonymous User]

Do we think the election will impact CFPB hiring? Project 2025 explicitly calls for them to shutter

Hiring for this cycle? No. That was set in advance and will be complete by EOY.

First year on the job for '25 new hires, and hiring future cycles? Absolutely. Unlikely Trump will shutter the agency, but working there will be difficult.

[Anonymous User]

Any OCC updates? Any offers go out yet?

Starting to count myself out and bummed about it :/