Please also be mindful of these. Because the Worker-Trainee program has been identified as an appropriate hiring mechanism for this effort, we are providing more detailed information in this forum about that program. Agencies may use discretion in determining how they can best fill positions given the qualifications of welfare recipients. The attachments to this document describe many of them. Agencies should consider all existing competitive and excepted service hiring authorities which may be appropriate.
All requirements associated with any given authority continue to apply.
We are available and have established mechanisms to accomplish this efficiently and economically. Under inter-agency agreements, OPM's nationwide Service Center representatives will be available to assist with this process. As a result of delegated examining to agencies, there is no longer a need for central registers, and the Office of Personnel Management does not expect to recreate them. Because of the availability and ease in using this authority it was decided to continue its use. 5 U.S.C. 3304a requires individuals serving in positions in the competitive service under a temporary appointment pending establishment of a register to acquire competitive status and are entitled to have their appointments converted to career appointments, without condition, when they meet the conditions of the appointing authority.