Individual Occupational Requirements for
GS-410: Zoology Series
The text below is extracted verbatim from
Section IV-B of the Operating Manual for Qualification Standards
for General Schedule Positions (p.IV-B-59), but contains minor edits
to conform to web-page requirements.
Use these individual occupational requirements in
conjunction with the "Group Coverage Qualification Standard for
Professional and Scientific Positions."
Basic Requirements:
- Degree: zoology; or a related discipline or field of science that included at
least 20 semester hours in zoology and related animal sciences.
OR
- Combination of education and experience--courses equivalent to a major in
zoology, or in a related discipline that included course work as shown in A
above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Graduate Education: To be qualifying, graduate study must have been in one of the major fields of
zoology, or have followed a curriculum or pattern of training that placed major emphasis on one of these
disciplines or subject-matter fields, such as nematology or parasitology.
Graduate study in related fields of science such as microbiology, medicine, veterinary medicine, or plant
pathology that involved cross-training in zoology or one of the fields of zoology may also be qualifying,
provided there was a sufficient amount of emphasis on zoology.
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