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Basic Staffing and Placement
(GS Classic)

(Course Available After Purchase)$325

Overview:
Learn about the federal hiring process; current staffing law, regulations, rules, and procedures that must be used to ensure that federal hiring is fair and based on merit; and how to select and retain the best-qualified candidates for your agency's jobs.
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This course is part of the Human Resources Management Certificate Program, Level 1, which can be completed entirely through distance education.

Enroll anytime in this paper-based course. All materials supplied. Independent study. Self-paced; take up to six months to complete.
Who Should Attend?
Federal HR practitioners; administrative, EEO, or employee relations staff; and anyone who needs knowledge of federal hiring requirements.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand the basis for merit staffing
  • Identify appropriate staffing processes
  • Select and retain the best-qualified candidates for your agency's jobs
  • Assess minimum qualifications
  • Evaluate candidate knowledge, skills, and abilities
  • Prepare selection certificates
  • Interview candidates
  • Make legal selections
  • Identify pay-setting options
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    Outline:
    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


    Course Details
    CODE:  STAF7100N
    TYPE:  Distance Education
    LENGTH:  Up to 6 Month(s)
    CREDIT:  4 CEU
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