DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Employer Reviews

everyone worked together. If there was a problem every effort was made to solve it. The people i worked with were very friendly and good to work with. Moving up on the job was encourged.

The USDA is a good place to work but has very few advancement opportunities. I must qualify this statement with the fact that no government agencies have advancement opportunities at this time.

everyone was welcoming and open to teaching me what I needed to know and tried to make everyday as fun as a day under a microscope can be.

- it was normal as 8 hours work, where your holidays are sometimes violated without pay
- i have learned how to plan, manage and monitor complex livelihood projects in the rural areas
-since the top management was frequently turning over, management was not balanced on merit principle
- to monitor remote insecure area where there is more uncertainty
- – more... coordinating and chairing the agricultural task force meetings where regional food security is updated – less

Work consist of processing travel casework for all USDA employees on international travel, I help our employees achieve their task in maintaining good relationship with international scientists and officials in varies companies. Since I have been employed with DKW/USDA I have learned about travel vouchers, travel arrangements and govtrip. My office – more... is a family environment, my co-workers and I work as a team to accomplish many travel requests. The most enjoyable part of my job is to sending employees to various countries across the globe. The hardest part of the job is making sure I receive the correct documentation to obtain the visas in time for the traveler to depart the United States on time. – less

Your skills and knowledge are put to the test each day you're there. If you have a passion for this type of work, you will love this organization and its commitment for excellence.

From working on maintaining office filing system to updating co-workers computer processing units, the US Forest Service was the foundation for my upcoming office experiences.

I learned some of the basic fundamentals of loan processing, loan closing, underwriting, budgeting, leadership skills, and more.

Great place to work. Fun interesting people to work with. Learned about camp grounds throughout the forestry. Learned how to take care of people's needs for wood permits and wood gathering for heating purposes in winter. Co workers were awesome. Hardest part was leaving. Most enjoyable was laughing when work was done

typical day with the Mexican fruit fly facility : get there, work hard, and leave.
The pay is great, the benefits stink! all they give is sick leave and annual leave hrs, which are never granted. they have their favs. the most enjoyable part of this job, was clocking out everyday. the hardest part, the ignorance and arrogance of the management.

Visit various USDA regulated facilities to verify HACCP, SSOP, SPS's, GMP's, sampling progams, prerequisite programs. Worked independently on a regular basis.
Trainings on a regular basis and daily updates in new or updated USDA FSIS directives and notices.
Previouse supervisors were very helpful
Hardest part of my job is time management.
Most enjoyable – more... part is to apply my microbiology and food science knowledge on a daily basis. – less

I learned one should work as S/he can work and need to work one work at a time and need to work timely.

Perform test on cotton.
How to test cotton.
Management is great.
The job is not hard at all.
Testing the cotton.

Monday
good management
two co-workers
select the candidate
When the candidate goes to participate the program

My team is great and I love the application I am working on. Really the only downfall here is the sequestration and seeing good people cut.

Awesome facility to work in with a lot of interesting people doing various research.

I have great respect to the Department. I learn all the things, field experience from the department. got training in country and foreign countries. devoted 75 % of my time to develop my institute to achieve the creditability of the department.
hardest part of the job is to identify people. enjoyable part was to achive targets with my skills, PR, team – more... work and leadership. – less

I was responsible for developing public notices for individuals seeking initial employment with the Federal government. I discussed the application process and the best ways to get the maximum exposure from their work experience, training, education and performance evaluations.

The most difficult part of the job was coaching the individuals who were – more... not successful and making sure they understood what went wrong and how to improve their chances for future employment. – less

If you are able to work seasonally, The USDA Forest Service has many opportunities to gain hands-on experience in many environmental fields.

Outstanding place to work. My co-workers were all over the country but we were like close family. I got a phone call from my supervisor about every 2 weeks and saw him once every 6 months. I worked alone and covered the states of VA and WVA. I learned scheduling and time management.