I emailed my resume, cover letter, & transcript. Heard back a few weeks later and talked with the director for the center. We talked about my experiences and what I wanted from a job. She described the recent work of the center and then (basically) offered me the position at the end of the conversation.

My experience with this organization was almost comically frustrating. I actually went through something like an interview process with them twice. The first time was the summer of 2015. I did a phone-screen, and they told me they'd like for me to come in for an on-site interview. However, it took many days to arrange this. I had to fill out several incredibly involved forms, which I was happy to do. The reason was that they were considering me for a position that was slightly different from the one I'd applied for. This all took so long that, in the meantime, I interviewed with and was offered a job by another company in the area. I called RTI and asked if we could expedite the interview process at all. No can do, I was told, as everyone was on vacation for something like the entire month of August. I told them I couldn't afford to wait, but we should stay in contact. About a year later, I applied for another job for which I felt very qualified. I had a phone screen with the recruiter, and she told me I had all the skills they were looking for, and that I'd be contacted by someone from the data science organization shortly. I was very optimistic, since I had heard from a few people there *on the data science team* that they were looking for people with my skillset and were really having trouble finding people. However, I never heard back. I contacted the recruiter every few days to see if there were any updates, and she always said "no, I haven't heard anything." I eventually gave up. This was especially funny since a friend of mine was, at this time, going through something similar for a public health analyst position. She did two phone interviews and an on-site and was told that they were *drafting her offer letter*, and then....nothing. Months went by and she eventually got another job, as did I. I get that priorities and budgets change, but good grief. This is an incredibly sloppy way to treat someone, especially someone with a relatively rare skillset, and especially in this job market, where data scientists can pretty much name their salary and every company seems to be hiring.