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Rigas, summarized the matter at hand in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201002141838/https://www.chcoc.gov/content/draft-general-schedule-qualifications-policy-eo-13932-modernizing-and-reforming-assessment">a Sept. 25 memo</a>, and request for comments, directed at agency Chief Human Capital Officers.</p> <p>“Currently, candidates for federal employment may qualify for employment by holding formal educational credentials or through relevant experience (e.g., training),” Rigas wrote in the memo. “In accordance with EO 13932 Sec.2(a)(i)(ii), OPM is updating General Schedule Qualifications Policy so that candidates will now be able to qualify for employment on the basis of competency-based assessments when there are no legal educational requirements to perform a job.”</p> <p>Rigas noted that the order is not altogether a new thing, and that many agencies already use “skills and competency-based assessments”—but these are usually utilized at a later stage, after the pool of qualified applicants is assembled on the basis of education and experience only.</p> <div class="ad"> <div id="div-gpt-ad-BOX_C1-0006"> <script type="text/javascript"> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-BOX_C1-0006'); }); </script> <noscript> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201002141838/https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/5978/eof.fs&t=item%253d15ebfb4f_c18e_4694_a764_16f5e0a8d8f4%26pos%253dBOX_C1&sz=300x250|1x1|580x400|640x481&tile=6&c=123456789" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20201002141838im_/https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/5978/eof.fs&t=item%253d15ebfb4f_c18e_4694_a764_16f5e0a8d8f4%26pos%253dBOX_C1&sz=300x250|1x1|580x400|640x481&tile=6&c=123456789" border="0" alt=""/> </a> </noscript> </div> </div> <br/> <p>Under the revised system envisaged under Executive Order 13932, the intention is—from the outset—to widen these pools by accepting into them some candidates who may lack some of the education or experience, but who can demonstrate the necessary skills for many jobs. This early stage is known as “pre-certification.”  </p> <p>By making this change where possible the hope is to gain larger able pools of candidates to draw from—”thereby enabling highly skilled workers with non-traditional educational paths to serve the American public,” as Rigas phrases it. </p> <p>The memo also offers as a companion document—a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201002141838/https://www.chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/List%20of%20Occupational%20Series%20with%20Positive%20Education%20Requirements_0.pdf">draft list</a> OPM is also developing, specifying jobs (including certain medical, legal and scientific positions) that will continue to require certain educational degrees and certificates for an applicant to even be considered for them.  </p> <p>OPM is seeking comment through Oct. 16 from agency human capital officers on all matters related to this process. </p> <span><br> <br> </span> <br/>   </div> </div><div id="ph_pcontent2_1_CommentsList"> <a name="Comments"></a> <div id="comments"> <h3 id="ph_pcontent2_1_h3ShowComments">Reader comments</h3> <div class="standard"> <h2> Thu, Oct 1, 2020 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> By the way I'm one of the BOZO's with no education but have worked 15 years + for the federal gov. doing any job I could to learn and improve the agency's I have worked for.</p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Thu, Oct 1, 2020 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> Having a degree and the education doesn't always make the person QUALIFIED for the job, it made them a good student, very different to be a student then to do the job. This will make for a better and more productive workforce. </p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Thu, Oct 1, 2020 <span class="name"> Good2Late4Me</span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> I am a GS-14 that recently applied for a GS-07 position, so I could be near my aging parents. It was a Wildlife Biologist job...I have a BS in Zoology, and owned/operated a biological survey company for years. I have worked for a science based agency leading national plant programs for years. The rating officials rated me "not qualified" because I lacked (2) credit hours...not even a complete class, in undergraduate plant science coursework!!! I called and asked how this could happen since I have 20+ years of federal experience IN A PLANT SCIENCE AGENCY!!! They told me that OMB requirements states that I need 9 credit hours in plant science and would not be further considered. 128 credits are required for an undergraduate degree, I have 168 credits, went to graduate school in NM, Georgetown, and Harvard Kennedy School...so, yeah...the system needs an overhaul!</p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Thu, Oct 1, 2020 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> Here's a List of "bozo" "small minded people". Paul Allen, Henry Ford, Mark Zuckerberg, Russell Simmons, David Geffen, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Ted Turner, Steve Jobs. No discipline here.</p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Thu, Oct 1, 2020 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> Not the worst idea. 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