Syllabus -- Basic Staffing and Placement, STAF7100N, Grad. School, USDA
Lesson 1 - Hiring Federal Employees: Merit Staffing
- Legal requirements that govern merit staffing
- Agency requirements
- Principles that undergird merit staffing
- Who has responsibility for the staffing process
- Staffing and the HR process
Lesson 2-Receiving the Recruitment Request
- Where do requests come from?
- What do requests include?
- What should I do with a request?
- Responsibilities of supervisors and HR staff
Lesson 3-Identifying the Staffing Processes
- Competitive Service
- Merit promotion/internal placement
- Noncompetitive procedures
- Time-limited
- Excepted service
- Selection for excepted service positions
Lesson 4-Filling Vacancies
- The recruitment process
- Rating Candidates
- Using the Quals Handbook
- Time-in-grade restrictions
- Time-after-competitive-appointment restrictions
- Overview of the ranking process
Lesson 5-Ranking Candidates
- Using competitive examining
- Using merit promotion procedures
- Analyzing the job
- Developing KSAs
- Measuring KSAs
- Preparing the certificate
- Issuing the certificate
Lesson 6-Interviewing Candidates
- Job-related questions
- Questions you should never ask
- Conducting the interview
Lesson 7-Selecting Candidates
- Working a certificate
- Reference checks
- Processing selection actions
- Preemployment/appointment packages
Lesson 8-Pay Issues for Recruitment, Salary Negotiation
- Federal pay systems
- Minimum rate
- Highest previous rate
- Superior qualifications appointment; special qualifications appointment
- Special salary rates
- Recruitment bonus
- Relocations bonus
- Making decisions
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