Type of Appointments
Change of appointment, under either the same or a different authority, in the same agency without a break in service
What is Conversion?
Eligible veterans can be appointed up to GS-11 to an excepted temporary position and will be converted to permanent status in the competitive service after 2 years of satisfactory service.
What is Veterans Recruitment Authority?
A form used to document the processing of various personnel actions for government employees.
What is Standard Form 50 (SF 50)?
An independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service.
What is Office of Personnel Management (OPM)?
This museum is often referred to as Secretary Lonnie Bunch's baby.
What is National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC)?
Reemployment of a former employee who held a permanent position appointment with a federal agency.
What is Reinstatement?
The noncompetitive temporary or term appointment of veterans requires a current VA letter dated within the last year or discharge papers verifying the disability for this program.
What is 30% or More Service-Connected Disability?
Selection of an agency employee from a competitive job announcement to a position with higher grade potential than currently held.
What is Merit Promotion?
Official legal print publication containing the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the depts and agencies of the Federal Government.
What is Code of Federal Regulations?
The world’s largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft.
What is National Air and Space Museum (NASM)?
Positions within the federal government that require individuals to go through a process ensuring that applicants receive fair and equal treatment under civil service laws.
What is Competitive Service Appointment?
Veterans, spouses, widows, or mothers who meet certain criteria and are entitled to have 5 or 10 points added to their earned score on a civil service examination.
What is Preference Eligible?
The temporary assignment of an employee to a position in the same or different organization/agency for a specified period with the employee returning to their original position.
What is Detail?
A directive issued by the president of the US that manages operations of the federal government. It has the force of law and does not require action by Congress or state legislature to take effect.
What is Executive Order?
The only national museum in the United States dedicated to the collection, exhibition, conservation and study of the arts of Africa.
What is National Museum of African Art (NMAA)?
Temporary appointment when the agency intends later to convert the employee to a nontemporary appointment when required conditions are met.
What is Provisional Appointment?
Ten points are added to the passing examination score or rating of spouses, widows, widowers, or mothers of veterans based on service of a veteran who is not able to use the preference.
What is Derived Preference?
Registers men and maintains a system for conscripting troops in the event of war.
What is Selective Service?
A guide for federal agency examining offices to conduct competitive examining processes.
What is Delegated Examining Operations Handbook (DEU Handbook)?
SI has excepted authority to noncompetitively hire positions at GS-15 and below in this museum requiring knowledge of, and experience in, tribal customs and culture.
What is National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)?
OPM may grant agencies specific exceptions after considering occupation and duties, reasons why recruitment & competitive examining are not possible, and reviewing remedies and alternatives that have been used to resolve recruitment and examining problems.
What is Special Appointing Authorities
Mandates that returning service members must be promptly re-employed in the same position that they would have attained had they not been absent for military service, with the same seniority, status, and pay.
What is Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)?
Program that helps surplus or displaced federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job at another agency (not their current or former agency), by giving them selection priority over other applicants from outside the agency.
What is Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)?
The daily publication of the Federal government that contains regulations, notices, orders, and other documents.
What is Federal Register?
This museum traces the American experience from colonial times to the present and contains the famed Star-Spangled Banner—and documents that explore the evolution of the American identity.
What is National Museum of American History (NMAH)?