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Applicants Crash FBI Server

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By ELAINE SILVESTRINI

esilvestrini@tampatrib.com

Published: January 7, 2009

The FBI wants to hire thousands of new employees, but if you want to apply, the agency's computer servers have other ideas.

The federal law enforcement agency has launched "one of the largest hiring blitzes in our 100-year history," hoping to hire more than 2,100 professional staff employees and 850 special agents.

However, applicants on the FBI's online jobs page at www.fbijobs.gov got this message Tuesday:

"Thank you for your interest in the FBI positions. We are expanding the capacity of our servers and expect them to be available soon. Please check back after 3 p.m."

After 3 p.m., this message appeared: "Notice to applicants, Based on the overwhelming response to our FBI Agent position the server is currently unavailable and will be repaired shortly. Please try your request again later."

Later, applicants were redirected to another federal jobs site, www.jobsearch.usa. That site lists specific jobs, but the link to apply for FBI jobs was broken.

The following message was displayed: "There was an error in processing your request, please try again."

There are no openings for professional staff in the Tampa office. Agents are hired nationwide.

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