Application Timeline

Peace Corps Application Timeline - some of the dates are estimates, because I am not such an avid chronicler as others out there.

February 5, 2011: opened a Peace Corps account and began my application.

March 11, 2011: around 2am, after checking each answer on each page about five times, I submitted my application. I then zipped through the (online) Health Status Review form, which is like some tiny teaser to the behemoth of medical paperwork I will eventually be filling out.

March 16, 2011: I get a packet from Peace Corps with fingerprint cards and a National Agency Check (NAC) form to fill out. Check me OUT Feds!

March 21(?), 2011: I call because I messed up the NAC form. Oops. My recruiter sends me another. I do my fingerprint card and fill out the new form and they get sent out!

late March, 2011: I get another letter with my "toolkit" login information...I can check if they have received forms I've sent in. I notice that only 2 of 3 references are received; I freak out and call the office; it's all fine (Jess, you are my friend and my teacher get it right!).

March 29, 2011: I get an email asking me to call my local recruiter, Ally, and schedule an interview.

April 5, 2011: I have my interview. It's 1 hour 15 minutes. Goes pretty well, I think? I hope! My droll voice is not good when it comes to interviewing, but Ally and I connected.

April 6, 2011: I get ANOTHER email, this time asking me to set up a phone interview with my main recruiter, Lisa, in the regional office (Seattle). Umm...this step isn't any blog or timeline or anywhere. Please tell me everything is okay, o Lisa of Seattle.

April 7, 2011: Lisa emailed me back saying she'd be gone until Thursday...so I called and we set up a phone interview for 4pm. She had a few more questions for me - of course, I qualify for teaching English and eastern Europe/central Asia is the region that requests the most volunteers for that. Hmmm. I told her I would be more than willing to take a French class if it meant serving in (West) Africa.

Anyway, I have to submit another reference (from a REAL friend) and Lisa will nominate me when she finds out about positions in late April!! YAY!!