Unhappy with the New USAJobs Website? You're Not Alone.
Government Executive reports that not everyone’s happy with the latest version of USAJobs:
Readers of Government Executive have been less than impressed with USAJobs 3.0. Of the nearly 160 responses to an open-ended query as of Tuesday, only seven praised the website’s Oct. 11 relaunch.
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The most frequent complaints centered on the site’s search function. Commentators said the tool for filtering search results isn’t working properly — for example, location-based searches return results outside of the specified regions.
Many readers also complained about losing the searches they had saved under USAJOBS 2.0, although OPM had stated on its website and via emails to users prior to the relaunch that no saved searches would carry over.
Bugs in the results pages, login difficulties and long load times also were high on readers’ list of grievances.
The folks at the Office of Personnel Management (which administers USAJobs) are, however, undeterred:
OPM stands by the product, updating the public via daily reports on the site.
“Through refinement efforts, USAJobs 3.0 is continuing to see success, and the most recent testing by OPM shows that the site remains stable and secure, and its capacity is at full strength,” OPM Chief Information Officer Matthew Perry wrote in an Oct. 31 public report. The agency is planning an additional technical briefing on the site for later this week.
