FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan
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U.S. Office of Personnel
Management FY 2000 |
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| ES Goal 11: | Required competencies are identified for all major Federal occupations and occupational analyses of three Governmentwide mission-critical occupations (auditing, accounting, information technology) are completed in order to provide information to support improved recruitment, selection, promotion, and career development tools needed for a high-quality Federal workforce. |
Completion of occupational analyses in these three occupations will support OPM’s continued Governmentwide leadership role in providing broad-based occupational analysis information to identify competencies for all mission-critical Government occupations. The analyses of these three occupations will begin in FY 1999, when detailed plans will be developed.
Once the occupational studies have been completed, ES will work in collaboration with major agency users of these occupations to develop innovative recruitment and retention strategies. These will include identifying sources and locations of high quality candidates; introducing high quality recruiting strategies; identifying critical job competencies for developing assessment tools; developing specific Governmentwide career intern programs for the specific occupations; and developing focused career development programs and orientations for each occupation. With requested additional funding and/or funding obtained from stakeholder agencies, these studies will be completed in FY 2000; otherwise they will be completed in FY 2001 or beyond.
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Work in collaboration with Federal agencies, various Federal organizations (e.g., Chief Financial Officers, Information Technology Association, Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group), and educational institutions with related academic concentrations to conduct the occupational studies and to develop the strategies for recruitment, selection, training, and retention. |
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Assess availability of competency information for critical Government occupations and work with agencies to form cooperative special interest groups to fund studies of remaining occupations. | |
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Complete the study of trades and labor occupations begun in FY 1998. | |
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Continue the international study of information technology, telecommunications, and Cyber Corps occupations to be completed in FY 2001. | |
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Develop a competency-based assessment consortia of state Governments to augment competencies in customer and work orientation. | |
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Add new competency information to the HRManager automated system which is widely available to agencies and other users to assist in developing valid, job-related selection and promotion procedures and other assessment tools. | |
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Agency and stakeholder satisfaction with the design and results of the studies, and with the strategies developed (as measured by qualitative analysis of feedback from agencies and stakeholders). |
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In future years, by assessing results of longitudinal studies of the quality of the workforce in these occupations to determine if new tools were useful. | |
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An increase in the Federal occupations for which
competency information is available. In FY 1998 OPM began a job analysis study of trades and labor occupations; this study is partially funded by agencies with large numbers of wage grade occupations, such as the U.S. Mint and the D.C. Government. (This initiative, estimated to cost about $2,000,000 would cost at least $10,000,000 if conducted separately by individual agencies, thus saving $8 million and ensuring availability of the information Governmentwide.) Previous studies have established tasks and competencies for clerical/technical, professional/ administrative, and supervisory/managerial/executive occupations covering more than 1,000,000 employees. |
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Competency data are made widely available
through the HRManager and USACareers automated systems. All of the data from competency studies conducted in previous years are in the HRManager system, and the trades and labor data will be added in FY 2000. |
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