The Internal Revenue Service is adding more than 5,000 employees at its service processing centers in Austin, Texas; Kansas City, Mo. and Ogden, Utah. New hires are expected to begin work withing 30 to 45 days of job offers.
Temporary, term and permanent jobs are available with many to be hired for entry-level clerk and tax examiner positions in the Wage and Investment Division. No prior tax experience is required.
Pay for the positions ranges from GS-02 to GS-09.
The IRS will review resumes and extend officers to eligible applicants on the spot during virtual direct hiring events on March 16, 23 and 30. In-person events are being held at Kansas City on March 18 and 19; at Austin on March 24 and 25; and Ogden on March 31 and April 1.
Preregistration and social-distancing for the in-person job fairs. Information on both virtual and in-person events is available at jobs.irs.gov/events.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind