New Supervisor Training: Staffing

Schedule A is a competitive service hiring authority used to non-competitively hire an individual with intellectual disabilities; severe physical disabilities; or psychiatric disabilities.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A job announcement is advertised for an Equal Opportunity Investigator in your division, and you are scheduled to be on the interview panel. You believe your first sister-in-law, who with significant experience conducting workplace investigations, would be a perfect fit for the position. What should you do?

• Advocate for your sister-in-law in the selection process by passing along her resume to the selecting official or staffing specialist.

• Serve as a reference for your sister-in-law. She is not a blood relative, so there is no cause for concern.

• Recuse yourself from the selection process.

Your office has a position that must be filled immediately; however, there is no fully classified Position Description (PD).  As a supervisor, what should you do?

• Authorize the Staffing Specialist to fill announce the position without a PD; it can be developed later.

• Delay filling the position until a position description can be developed and fully classified.

• Use the Position Description for a similar PD since the title is not important.

Veterans’ Recruitment Appointments (VRA) can have an initial appointment up to GS-12.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following would qualify for Military Spouse Authority?

• Spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty.

• Spouse of a service member who is 30% percent disabled due to a service-connected injury.

• Both of these.

At EEOC, once the certificate of eligibles is issued the selecting official has _____ days to make a selection.

• 7

• 30

• 15

Former Peace Corps or AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) are granted a one-year period to be non-competitively appointed to a competitive service federal position. 

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following is NOT one of the Pathways Programs?

• Recent Graduates

       

• Presidential Management Fellows (PMF)

• Schedule A

For merit promotion announcement certificates for positions covered by the CBA, Selecting Officials at their discretion may interview candidates. However, if an EEOC Bargaining Unit employee on a certificate is interviewed, all other EEOC Bargaining Unit employees on that certificate must be interviewed.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What should you do if you believe there is an error with a certificate that was issued?

• Continue with the selection process and provide your concerns via a notation when the certificate is returned.

• Notify the Staffing Specialist.

• Nothing. Someone will identify any issues when the certificate is audited.