FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan
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U.S. Office of Personnel
Management FY 2000 |
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| ES Goal 3: | Redesigned Qualification Standards that integrate competency-based examining and DOL/OMB Standard Occupational Classification systems are completed so that agencies are better able to coordinate selection, career development, and job mobility programs and to provide a simple, understandable framework for Government job applicants. |
OPM will redesign the Government’s qualification standards to use the Department of Labor/OMB Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) as the organizing framework. This will align public and private occupations for the first time. The revised qualification standards will be integrated with competency-based approaches to examining and other human resource functions. The result will support a seamless coordination of selection, career development, and job mobility programs. Much of the redesign work will be accomplished through teams from Federal departments and agencies on reimbursable detail to OPM. The new standards will benefit the HR community and Federal managers and provide a simple, understandable framework for job applicants.
In FY 1999, OPM will identify key occupations to study initially and will pilot "model" qualification standards criteria. The pilot occupations will be evaluated and the results used for improvement and implementation of a new qualifications standards approach. As standards are revised, they will be issued in a new format that makes them more useful to line managers and members of the public, as well as to HR professionals. CDS and Internet-based hypertext systems will make standards readily available to everyone needing access to them.
After development and validation of the model, OPM will move forward in FY 2000 to implement comprehensive standards revision. The process will be closely integrated with the new SOC. OPM’s competency-based approach will identify common clusters of occupations for which a general standard is appropriate. Where single-occupation standards are required, they will be developed in close consultation with agencies, appropriate unions, professional associations, and other stakeholders. Stakeholder input and other labor market data will also be used to identify critical need occupations for immediate attention.
With requested additional funding and/or funding obtained from stakeholder agencies, the revised standards will be completed and implemented, the new Qualifications Standards Handbook will be issued, and the "virtual handbook" will be available in FY 2000/2001. This is an ES priority initiative.
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