DEU

A non-status appointment to a competitive position for a specific period not to exceed one year is a appointment:

T/F: An employee serving on a term appointment may be selected for a permanent position through merit promotion procedures.

T/F: Direct-hire authority permits hiring without regard to veterans’ preference or rating procedures

Direct-hire authority may be initiated by:

T/F: Evidence of extensive recruitment efforts and extended announcement periods may be justification for direct hire authority based on a severe shortage of candidates and a critical hiring need

T/F: Individuals whose only Federal employment has been in the excepted service, non-career Senior Executive Service (SES) or statutory positions are generally not eligible for noncompetitive conversion to competitive service positions.

T/F: There are a number of hiring flexibilities available and agencies must use all of them for each vacancy filled to guarantee equal employment opportunity.

T/F: Federal regulations provide that each employment practice of the Federal government generally, and of individual agencies, shall be based on a job analysis.

T/F: Each time you seek to fill a job you must prepare a new job analysis.

T/F: Examining Offices may develop applicant appraisal procedures, including written tests, consistent with the technical standards in the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures and Operating Handbook, Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

List the steps in developing a crediting plan using the Behavioral Consistency Model.

T/F: Agencies are prohibited from using more than one type of assessment instrument in evaluating a group of applicants for a position

T/F: I can’t start recruitment for my vacancy until the job opens on the USAJOBS website

T/F: Recruitment and public notice are one and the same

T/F: OPM regulations require agencies to post JOAs to USAJOBS for competitive service vacancies open to applicants outside an agency’s work force, including temporary vacancies lasting121 days or more

Is there a minimum open period for job opportunity announcements?

List circumstances where the use of a cut-off date might be appropriate.

T/F: If an agency just includes a hyperlink to the OPM Qualification Standard for the appropriate series in their job opportunity announcement, they have met the requirements of 5 CFR 330.104.

Where must job opportunity announcements be posted in order to meet statutory and regulatory requirements to publicize employment opportunities?

T/F: Employee benefits and employee assistance programs are required items in a job opportunity announcement.

Under what law may qualified veterans without status apply to compete for vacancies under merit promotion procedures when the agency is accepting applications from outside its own workforce?

T/F: Merit promotion and delegated examining announcements must always be announced separately

T/F: Agencies may require applicants to submit applications in a specific style.

Who can file a late application?

T/F: A 10-point preference eligible who files late and is not certified is entitled to have his/her applications considered for future vacancies

An incomplete application may be rated based on the information available if this practice is consistently applied

An examining unit may request the applicant to furnish information missing from his/her application if this practice is consistently applied.

An incomplete application may be returned to the applicant or retained by the examining office without action if this practice is consistently applied

What are the communication touch-points for which agencies are responsible to contact applicants?

T/F AN ANGENCY IS AN EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT?

T/F A VACANCY IS a competitive service position lasting more than 120 days?

Which is the geographic area for employment purposes?

Which has received certification of expected separation?

If an eligible CTAP applicant is referred for a vacancy, then no one else from ____ the agency may be selected.

What consideration is given someone who applied as an ICTAP eligible and is found qualified, but not well-qualified for the vacancy?

If an eligible ICTA P applicant is referred, then no one else from ______ agency may be selected unless they are covered by one of the exclusions.

What is the order of selection when two or more ICTAP eligibles apply and are found well-qualified?

Which has received specific RIF notice?

T/F: If the citizenship of an applicant is undetermined, the applicant should be referred with a notation to verify citizenship prior to appointment.

T/F: Agencies must use OPM qualification requirements found in the Operating Manual: Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions when examining for a General Schedule (GS) position.

T/F: Agencies can use the qualification requirements found in the Operating Manual: Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions to fill Wage Grade (WG) positions.

T/F: A selective factor may require agency-specific knowledge.

T/F: Not qualified is an acceptable quality category in category rating.

What is the minimum number of quality categories you may use in category rating?

Speed of referral is the principal advantage.

Competencies/KSAs are tailored to the job.

Availability of applicants is higher

Requires more time to issue a certificate.

Continual maintenance is required.

T/F: Requests for appeal or reconsideration of a rating must be submitted in writing.

What is the basic rule on certification by geographical area?

T/F: Competitive examining vacancy announcements for permanent positions can be limited to individuals in the local commuting area.

ICTAP Eligible candidates who lost consideration due to erroneous certification/illegal selection. All eligible candidates in the highest quality category including those with compensable service-connected disability of 10% or more (regardless of their quality category) with preference eligible listed first

What is the order of certification for Professional & Scientific positions, GS-09 and above? ICTAP Eligible candidates who lost consideration due to erroneous certification/illegal selection. Eligibles who placed in the highest quality category with preference eligibles listed first (CP/CPS veterans do not float to the top category)

When selecting from a competitive certificate, how does veterans’ preference apply?

T/F: When using the delegated examining process, the SF-39 or agency developed method/form must be used to document specific required information in the case file.

T/F: Include documentation of the JOA from USAJOBS in the case file as evidence that the listing did, in fact, appear.

T/F: There is no provision for filing an objection to a CTAP or ICTAP eligible.

Who may access to OPM-developed examination materials?

Discuss which materials are NOT made available under the Privacy Act?

How often are DEU self-audits required?

T/F An OPM or agency-led evaluation of your delegated examining unit satisfies your annual self-audit requirement

ICTAP is a process whereby employees who will be or have been involuntarily separated (other than for cause) may receive selection priority for jobs in agencies other than the one from which they separated.

Which of the following positions is not restricted to preference-eligible veterans?

After working a certificate, a manager is left with three available candidates: one veteran and two non-veterans. Undecided on hiring any of them, he asks HR to merge categories, allowing him to consider additional names. Can this request be accommodated?

A hiring manager returns a certificate with the following actions: Carter CPS not selected; Maris XP selected; and Avis TP selected. Are the selections valid?

The following certificate has been returned by the hiring manager: Edgar CPS – declined location Harrison TP – selected Irene CP – failed to respond Bernice NV – not selected Loren NV – selected

The following information must be included on a Certificate of Eligibles except Select one:

The hiring manager discovers through reference checks that the applicant was released for misconduct from a previous position. Is this an adequate reason to pass over the applicant?

A non-veteran was accidentally selected over a veteran on a delegated examining certificate. Which of the following is NOT a potential step in rectifying the situation? Select one:

Brian is a CPS veteran who scored a 73 on the assessment for a Program Analyst, GS-0343-11 position. Based on the category rating plan below, in which category should Brian be placed? Best Qualified (95-100), Well Qualified (85-94), or Qualified (70-84) Select one:

Charles is a CP veteran who scored a 77 on the assessment for an Accountant, GS-0510-09 position. Based on the category rating plan below, in which category should Brian be placed? Best Qualified (95-100), Well Qualified (85-94), Qualified (70-84)Select one:

Under delegated examining, which of the following are the Agency's responsibilities? Select all that apply. Select one or more:

What is a Job Analysis?

A job analysis provides data that can be used to develop which of the following?

An open period (the period of time for which a job announcement is open for receipt of applications) may be defined based on the following:

Mary reviewed an applicant’s DD-214 which showed active duty service in the U.S. Army from 2 November 2010 until 1 November 2013with an honorable discharge. The veteran received the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. Was Mary correct in adjudicating the applicant as being a TP veteran?

John reviewed an applicant’s DD-214 and found active duty service in the U.S. Navy from 03 June 2010 to 02 June 2012 with an honorable discharge. No badges, medals, or campaign ribbons were shown. Was John correct in adjudicating the applicant as being a TP veteran?

In order to manage an anticipated large applicant pool for an announcement with multiple locations, you may limit the number of locations for which an applicant may be considered as long as this is identified in the job opportunity announcement.

Under the rules of dual certification, when a position is announced at more than one grade level, applicants should be certified for all positions from the lowest grade the applicant will accept to the highest grade level for which he/she is qualified.

Direct-hire authority permits hiring without regard to veterans’ preference or rating procedures.

When announcing a position under a temporary appointment intended to last a total of 121 days or more, CTAP/ICTAP must be cleared.

You should notify your supervisor in writing if you or a member of your household intends to apply for a position handled by your office.

When filling mission critical positions, a selective factor may require agency-specific knowledge.

Military retirees at the rank of major, lieutenant commander, or higher are not eligible for preference in appointment unless they are disabled veterans. This does not apply to Reservists who will not begin drawing military retired pay until age 60.