Position Req
Job Analysis
Incentives
Who May Apply
Wild Card
100

Employee is subject to random drug testing

What is a Testing Drug Position (TDP)?

100

The primary source for identification of major duties during job analysis.

What is a Position Description (PD)?

100

A lump payment of up to 25% of basic pay, offered to certain employees to relocate for a position in a different commuting area when the position is difficult to fill.

What is a Relocation Incentive?

100

This category includes: Army Civilians serving on a career or career conditional appt, DCIPS employees, term and employees on a VRA appt who have prior career or career conditional status in the competitive service.

What is a current Army Employee?

100

A discussion between CPAC and the hiring official about the recruitment process.

What is a Strategic Recruitment Discussion?

200

A description of the minimum requirements to perform specific job-related work. (education, medical or physical standards, training, licensure)

What are Qualification Standards?

200

Failure to do this could lead to an unsatisfactory referral list. 

What is identify critical tasks and essential competencies experience required for the position?

200

The maximum payment allowable in one year is $10,000 with a lifetime payment of $60,000 per employee.

What is Student Loan Repayment Incentive?

200

This category includes individuals who have received a 30% or more disability rating for the  Department of Veteran Affairs. This authority can be used to appoint individuals competitively or noncompetitively to any grade. 

What is 30% Disabled Veterans?

200

A program used to assist displaced employees through military spouses, reduction in force and employees returning from overseas.

What is the Priority Placement Program (PPP)?

300

Failure to maintain the required licensure, security clearance or driver's license, for instance, could result in this. 

What is a removal for Failure to Maintain a Condition of Employment?

300

Measurable patterns of knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors that an individual needs in order to perform functions of the position. 

What are competencies?

300

This incentive must include a statement in the JA that it may be authorized. The expenses are covered in more depth in the JTR, Vol 2.

What is PCS/Relocation Expenses?

300

Employees who have been involuntarily separated from other agencies may receive selection priority under this process.

What is  Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP)

300

Structured interview, questionnaire, test, work sample are examples of this. 

What are some examples of assessment tools?

400

A position that is not permanent, and will last more than one year but less than four years.

What is a Term Position?

400

Required experience an applicant must possess in order to be found minimally qualified for a position.

What is specialized experience?

400

Advance in-hire appointment allow the command to approve an increase in step for an employee receiving their first appt to a civil service position.

What is Superior Qualifications?

400

This category includes preference eligible and veterans who served 3 or more years on active duty and receive an honorable or discharge. This authority can only be used to appoint individuals to permanent vacancies.

What is Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA)?

400

Frequency, Importance, Needed at Entry, Distinguishing Value are some examples of this.

What are some items on the JA Worksheet for the SME to analyze?

500

OPM delegates agencies to fill competitive civil service jobs through competitive process open to all US citizens.

What is Delegated Examining Authority?

500

Defines a competency in terms of observable and verifiable behavior.

What is a task statement?

500

These incentives are collectively referred to as the 3R's and are covered in USASOC Policy 16-14.

What are Relocation, Retention and Recruitment Incentives?

500

This category allows you to hire an individual with a disability on an excepted service appointment.

What is Schedule A area of consideration?

500

These principles are the core values and guide managers in every human resource decision that is made.

What are the Merit System Principles?

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