Acronyms
A department that manages recruiting, hiring, training, benefits, compensation, and firing.
What is OHR?
A system used to build drafts for unit review, edit, and/or approval prior to posting.
What is Monster?
An applicant who meets the minimum qualifications requirements and passes an assessment for a position, and is therefore eligible for consideration.
What is a Candidate?
In this museum, people might see giant pandas, elephants, golden frogs, orangutans, and mammal demonstrations.
What is the National Zoo?
On what Holidays is Smithsonian museums closed?
What is Christmas Day?
A system for Timesheets, Leave, Premium Pay Requests, etc.
What is WebTA?
A predefined design with parameters and presets with copying in mind.
What is a Template?
A person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
What is a Veteran?
A museum that has outdoor and garden sculptures, platforms emerging and major artists, and has a ARTLAB+ studio.
What is the Hirshhorn Museum?
This festival attracts visitors down to the Tidal Basin area of the Potomac River and the Washington Channel.
What is the National Cherry Blossom Festival?
A system to process internal actions or to retrieve job requisitions.
What is HRMS?
A place to post approved announcements for candidates to apply to vacant positions.
What is USAJobs?
An indicator of knowledge or skill that relates to the school, home, community, voluntary or paid work proficiency of the applicant that is needed to perform in the job.
What is Experience?
A museum where people might learn of human origin, egyptian mummies, global climate change, and ecosystem modeling.
What is the Museum of Natural History?
This festival falls in late June annually.
What is the Smithsonian Folklife Festival?
A team of professionals collaborating to improve current SI Recruitment and Staffing processes.
What is the PIT Crew?
A uniform pay-setting system that covers Federal appropriated fund and non-appropriated fund blue-collar employees who are paid by the hour.
What is the Federal Wage System (FWS)?
Professionals who have advanced in knowledge in a specific field, a particular area, or topic and are uniquely qualified to provide guidance and strategy.
What is a Subject Matter Expert (or an SME)?
A museum dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the mail. It includes stationary, vehicles used to transport the mail, mailboxes, meters, cards and letters.
What is the National Postal Museum?
A suitable location to get married at the Smithsonian.
What is the Smithsonian Castle?
A system used to retrieve an employee's previous documented work experience/pay.
What is eOPF?
A systematic method used where current or former federal employees can apply for a job without having to compete with the general public.
What is Merit Promotion?
A means for considering top-rated qualified candidates for similar positions within an agency who are readily available for further consideration and/or selection.
What is Shared Certificates?
This museum is home to the nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside of the White House.
What is the National Portrait Gallery?
In what case do all museums close due to a pause in government funding and appropriations?
What is a government shutdown?