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Recruitment & Selection Guide: Best Practices

To help VA become an employer of choice and a leader in the Federal community in the area of equity, diversity, and inclusion, ODI has developed a Recruitment and Selection Best Practices-Avoiding EEO Pitfalls.  This guide lists key EEO pitfalls and provides practical EEO information and strategies for avoiding them.Recruitment & Selection Guide

It is designed to provide best practices for conducting a fair and legally defensible hiring process that ensures equity in internal placement actions and external hiring practices.The hiring process includes any measures, practices, policies, and procedures used to arrive at a hiring or promotional decision, including but not limited to recruitment, interviewing, rating and ranking candidates, and final selection.

A text-only version is also available. The Appendix I is available in a separate document.

For information about obtain printed versions of the guide, please see the memo.