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Operating Manual

Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions

GENERAL POLICIES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Table of Contents

A. PURPOSE AND SCOPE
B. RESPONSIBILITIES
  1. The Office of Personnel Management
  2. Agencies
C. EXPLANATION OF TERMS
D. DESCRIPTION OF QUALIFICATION STANDARDS
  1. Purpose of Standards
  2. Content of Standards
E. APPLICATION OF QUALIFICATION STANDARDS
  1. Selecting the Appropriate Qualification Standard
  2. Implementing New or Revised Standards
  3. Experience Requirements
    (a) General experience
    (b) Specialized experience
    (c) Describing experience in vacancy announcements
    (d) Crediting experience
    (e) Crediting one-grade interval or wage grade experience
    (f) Determining normal work week/work year
    (g) Concurrent experience in more than one position
    (h) Crediting teaching experience for non-teaching positions
    (i) Education and experience gained concurrently
    (j) Crediting work-study experience for initial appointment
    (k) Military experience
    (l) Crediting experience gained on detail
    (m) One-year specialized experience provision for General Schedule Grades
    (n) One-year specialized experience provision for banded positions
    (o) Determining level of experience required in one-grade interval series
    (p) Determining level of experience required in two-grade interval series
    (q) Determining level of experience based on crediting required KSA's
  4. Educational and Training Provisions or Requirements
    (a) Acceptability of higher education
    (b) Qualifying education or training
    (c) Academic year
    (d) College or university education
    (e) Crediting education in one-grade interval occupations
    (f) Superior academic achievement
    (g) Interpreting minimum educational requirements
  5. Crediting Combinations of Education and Experience
  6. Using Selective Factors
    (a) Experience
    (b) Education
  7. Using Quality Ranking Factors
  8. Special Inservice Placement Provisions
    (a) Minimum educational requirements
    (b) The "add-on rule"
    (c) Modifying experience requirements for certain inservice placement actions
    (d) Experience level required for promotion in one-grade interval series
    (e) Crediting education or training for promotion
  9. Other Requirements or Provisions
    (a) Citizenship
    (b) Medical/Physical
    (c) Age
    (d) Written and performance tests
    (e) Licensure, certification, and other requirements or provisions
    (f) Motor vehicle operators
  10. Supervisory Positions
F. UPDATING QUALIFICATION STANDARDS
G. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADDITIONAL STANDARDS
REFERENCES AND SOURCES
 
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