The authority to appoint employees, including welfare recipients, is currently delegated to Bureau Personnel Officers. They may further delegate this authority to field components. The following appointment authorities approved by the Office of Personnel Management may be used to appoint welfare recipients. These appointments may be permanent or time-limited. If time-limited, they would be either temporary appointments or term appointments.
Appointees have the opportunity to learn marketable skills and develop good work habits.
In addition, the Department will provide appropriate mentoring and counseling services. Appointees are eligible for conversion to career appointments after 3 years of qualifying service and satisfactory performance. Excepted service appointments - Regulations governing the Career Transition Assistance Program do not apply to filling positions in the excepted service. The Student Educational Employment Program appointing authorities . There are two components to this program.