They reached out to me and asked if I would be interested. Asked for me to provide documentation. I did. Then two weeks later I get an email letting me know they selected someone else.
Never got an interview. I had worked for them in the past. When I left my three supervisors all gave me high praise. Government. What can you do.
you may experience more and more of this. They seem to be more interested in building up a pool. Essentially provide cover for their hire. The request for paperwork is to make sure the files are complete.
Sadly it gives people false hope. They don't realize what they are doing. That approach has gotten into the private sector as well. Hiring agencies will have you go through hoops to send them paperwork and then send you a rejection an hour later. Consider yourself lucky, 2 weeks is better than 2 hours.
If the e-mail read like it was written by a lawyer, then it was HR and ass covering. I once e-mailed with a contact, then I got the "Thanks, but no thanks"...When I was dealing with him he was cool, informal, half assed English. Suddenly, subsequent e-mails had legalese and sounded like he had graduated from Harvard Law.