Ok I don't work at BFN so I can't really say outside of being a Valley resident what other criteria they used. I do know it's generally the same, Within 50 miles of the plant has priority, then living within the valley then whatever criteria are applied. For instance, being a member of the Union gets you an interview provided you meet all other entrance criteria. That's standard at all plants. Also for a turners benefit, If you passed the EEI your resume would have been screened by the plant but not until then. When TVA Posts a bid literally hundreds of people apply for it. When the bid closes and all EEI testing is complete HR sends out what is called a Sourcing Report. Everyone who passed the EEI will be on it, along with their resumes. They don't screen until they get the desired amount of interviewees. They screen ALL resumes sent, THEN select the candidates from that. There are certain requirements that are more or less graded, for instance Naval Experience gets one so many points and on and on. Degrees(Provided it's a technical degree, and associates counts) count for a certain amount but usually at the NLO Position Naval Experience is equivalent to a degree. Having a degree and Naval experience usually won't put you ahead of someone who has only one or the other since they are considered equivalent. In fact find the ANSI Standard and you'll find the requirements.
After you are selected for an Interview NONE OF YOUR BACKGROUND MATTERS at least for the NLO position, how you do in the interview determines whether you get the job. In other words how you got the interview is seperate from how you do in the interview.
I do assure atomicairedale we get more than enough qualified candidates within a 50 mile radius. The valley has quite a large population, especially within spitting distance of the power plants, and more are moving here everyday. When I said we had 100 EEI passees for our last AUO interviews I meant we had about 100 that passed and scored high based on their resumes AND lived in or near the valley. The plant can elect to interview anyone from anywhere, there's no problem with that, however if you have two candidates and you can only choose one you better have a heck of a good justification to hire the one from outside the valley or outside the 50 mile radius from the plant. It goes back to that TVA Mission thing. All hiring is ultimastely approved by the CNO for TVAN and if he sees someone from outside the valley he'll question it. I was involved in the selection of the candidates and the interviewing, I can assure you they were plenty qualified, out of the ones we interviewed (around 40 or so) I would have hired about 35 if I could.
One of the reasons I'm glad I had an SRO License and was a Shift Manager is that more or less bypasses a lot of that stuff because the bid entailed some unique qualifications.
My best advice, on the TVA website if there's a job you think you might remotely be qualified for BID IT! Then if you get the job and want to bid into Operations you'll be a TVA employee which counts for a lot.
Mike
