Applied on-line at USAjobs.gov, got a Notice of Results, then got a panel interview. From initial application to the interview, took 8 months. That's typical, anytime I call to check on the status the person at the IRS would advise me to be patient. The core of the interview consists of 5 questions, 3 about accounting and 2 about IRS forms

I received and invite at first and responded on the same day to schedule the interview and was told they were no longer interviewing. I received another invite a few weeks later and everything went as planned.