Introduction
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 - ANS-Abolished Civil Service Commission
Established:
OPM, Federal Labor Relations Authority, and US Merit Systems Protection Board
Merit System Principles (five USC 2301)
Prohibited Personnel Practices (five USC 2302)
Allows OPM to delegate authority to departments--not to sub businesses. (I.E. OPM
delegates to DOI, now not BLM or NPS.
Federal Hiring Process - ANS-1. Identify Job and Assessment device
2. Recruit and Announce Job
3. Accept and Review Applications
4. Assess Applicants
5. Certify Eligibles
George Washington's three criteria for Federal personnel. - ANS-Honesty, performance,
Being a Federalist (unspoken however practiced)
Hiring Reform Initiative - ANS-Presentational Memo. On Improving the Federal Recruitment
and Hiring Process issued 05/11/2010, carried out reforms.
Allow resume and cover letters
Eliminate KSAs
Mandate category rating
Require applicant notifications are key tiers: while software is acquired; eligible/ineligible
findings; referred/not referred; selection is made/certificate not used.
Improve first-class/Speed of hiring
Key elements of the Hiring Reform Initiative - ANS-
Merit System Principles (5 USC 2301) - ANS-These 9 standards are the expected
consequences of right control.
Recruitment have to be from qualified individuals from appropriate assets in an enterprise to
gain a piece pressure from all segments of society, and choice and advancement should be
determined entirely on the idea of relative capability, knowledge and abilties, after honest
and open competition which assures that each one obtain equal possibility.
All personnel and candidates for employment must receive truthful and equitable remedy in
all factors of personnel management without regard to political association, race, colour,
religion, national starting place, sex, marital popularity, age, or handicapping situation, and
with right regard for his or her privateness and constitutional rights.