Description:
Update and refresh your suitability adjudication skills. Review the adjudication process, the specific factors and additional considerations covered by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regulations, and OPM's "Issues Characterization Chart", so that you can make better decisions, avoid reversals on appeal, and safeguard the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Federal service.
COURSE ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS (No Exceptions)
To be admitted into this class, you must present:
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a valid federal ID verifying you are a federal employee, or pre-approval from OPM; AND a copy of OPM's Suitability Processing Handbook (dated September 2008).
*** You must obtain the Suitability Processing Handbook from your agency's Security Officer. Graduate School USA cannot provide the Handbook.
If you have any questions, please email customersupport@graduateschool.edu prior to registration.
Who Should Attend?
Adjudicators who are authorized by their agencies to handle suitability case processing and adjudication as delegated by OPM under Title 5 CFR, Part 731.
Non-federal employees desiring to take this course must obtain OPM approval prior to registering. Contact customersupport@graduateschool.edu to initiate the pre-approval process.
Tuition:
2024 classes:
$869
2025 classes:
$899
Credits:
1.2 CEU's
Class Type:
This course is currently being offered in the following training modalities:
- Online
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF9101
- Class Length: This class is listed as a 2 day course.
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF9101
- On-site
- TAB A
- PowerPoint Slides
- TAB B
- Exercises 1 thru 3
- TAB C
- OPM Guidance
- TAB D
- Credit Issues and Adjudication Worksheets
- TAB E
- Aguzie v. OPM Removal Tenured Empty Cas