LINKS: CONNECTING TO SOURCES OF
ADDITIONAL HELP AND INFORMATION    
         FOR FEDERAL JOB HUNTING

A. GENERAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON JOB SOURCES

For State and local government jobs: http://www.govtjob.net

http://www.FedWorld.gov. Makes it easy to locate any government information, aside
from just job information. You can search 30 million government websites and
thousand of documents, databases, and other information.

B. POSTAL JOBS

Postal Jobs. For official information on Job vacancies, visit: www.usps.
com/employment or click on “Careers” at the bottom of the www.usps.com home page.

C. PERSONS WITH SOME DISABILITY

Are you a person with some disabilities (e.g., mental retardation, severe physical or
psychiatric disability)? Federal hiring agencies are often granted the authority, at their
discretion, to hire or grant more favorable hiring conditions to such persons. You may
contact agency Special Placement Program Coordinators (SPPC) to inquire about such
opportunities. For the SPPC contact information on that, visit http://apps.opm.
gov/sppc_directory/. For more information on Federal employment for people with
disabilities, please visit: http://www.opm.gov/disability/appempl.asp

www.opm.gov/disability.  This is a site created by the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) specifically tailored to applicants who are disabled.

D. VETERANS
For veterans. www.opm.gov/veterans. This is a site created by the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) specifically to provide information about how military
skills relate to civilian jobs in the Federal Government, and about applying for hiring
preferences with the Federal government and other employers.

Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA).
For information on VEOA eligibility, visit: http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetguide.
asp#Veterans_Employment_Opportunities_Act_of_1998.

Reinstatement eligibility. If you previously held a career or career-conditional
appointment in a Federal agency (including persons who either have veterans'
preference, or acquired career tenure by completing 3 years of substantially
continuous and creditable service), you may possibly be eligible to apply for jobs in the
competitive Federal service that are open to status applicants. For more information
on reinstatement, please visit: www.usajobs.opm.gov/ei2.asp

The Veterans Recruitment Appointment (or the Veterans Readjustment Appointment
or VRA). Under a special authority which goes by this name, Federal agencies are
allowed to appoint, without competition, a qualified veteran covered by the rule to any
position for which he or she is qualified up to a GS-11 grade level or equivalent. Upon
completion of two years of satisfactory service, the covered veteran is converted to
the competitive service. For more information on the VRA program, including the
eligibility requirements, please visit: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/EI4.asp.

The 30% Disabled Veterans: Are you a disable veteran having a compensable
service-connected disability of 30% or more that is officially documented by the
Department of Defense or the Department of Veterans Affairs.?  Like the VRA, Federal
agencies have the authority, by law, to give a non-competitive temporary or term
appointment of not less than 60 days to any veteran who meets the required
conditions for that. For more information on this, please visit: http://www.opm.
gov/veterans/html/vetsinfo.asp.

E. HISPANICS

Hispanics. www.opm.gov/employ/diversity/hispanic. This is site created by the U.S.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) specifically to provide bilingual or bicultural
empowerment program.

F. FEDERAL JOB QUALIFICATION STANDARDS, WORK
CONDITIONS, SALARY AND COMPENSATION

Qualification Standards for a Federal job. The term “qualification standards” refer to
the minimum requirements necessary to perform work of a particular occupation
successfully and safely, such as the specific job-related work experience, education,
medical or physical standards, training, security, and/or licensure. The qualification
standards for white collar occupations are outlined in the Operating Manual:
Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions. To review those standards in
the Operating Manual, visit: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/index.asp. And for
information about the Job Qualification System for blue collar occupations, visit: http:
//www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c/index.htm.

Federal pay system. Many white-collar employees are paid under the General
Schedule (GS) system. For information on the current salary tables for the GS job
levels and locality pay areas, visit http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/index.asp.

For blue-collar employees, basic pay is set under the Federal Wage System (FWS).
For current FWS rates,  visit http://www.opm.gov/oca/wage/Wagesch.asp and select
a state and county for the corresponding wage schedule.

Federal salary scales. Under the Federal pay system, there are 15 grades in the
General Schedule (GS) pay scale system; each grade has 10 steps. (A few agencies
have statutory authority to administer their own pay systems, and employees in those
agencies may be subject to different pay-setting rules.). To see the current GS
salaries, visit  http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/index.asp.

Salary History. Want to know what the job you are looking for paid in the past (or will
pay now)? Visit http://www.opm.gov/oca/09tables/index.asp

Recruitment, relocation, or retention incentives. In certain situations, agencies may
offer recruitment, relocation, or retention incentives to a Federal job applicant. For
information on recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives, visit http://www.opm.
gov/oca/pay/html/3RS_newQAs.asp.

The Senior Executive Service (SES) Compensation scale. Persons covered by this
include most managerial, supervisory, and policy positions classified above GS grade
15 or equivalent positions in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.  For
information about this, visit: http://www.opm.gov/ses/compensation.asp.

U.S. Citizenship and Federal employment. Do you need information about citizenship
requirements for a Federal employment? Visit: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/EI9.asp.

G. COLLEGE STUDENTS & RECENT GRADUATES

Special sites and information of primary interest for students

www.makingthedifference.org or www.ourpublicservice.org.  These sites are
websites of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that
encourages college graduates to work for the federal government, is designed
specifically for young job seekers, and offers academic-specific guides, guides for
student programs, information on federal student loan repayment, and information on
“hot” student internships and jobs. It has many resources customized to college
students and graduates with specific majors.

www.StudentJobs.gov. A site created by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) specifically for information about jobs for students. It’s primarily meant for job
opportunities of interest to students at all academic levels and persons still in an
academic environment, including internships, summer jobs, and cooperative programs.
Run by the federal government, agencies are not required to post opportunities on
the site, however.

www.skidmore.edu/administration/career/govern.htm. A website of Skidmore
College, this site contains one of the most elaborate and extensive libraries of career
and job-oriented leads and information for students and recent graduates. An
important feature of this site, is its “Jobs by field” program by which it tries to match
students to, or steer them towards, jobs that relate to their college majors and fields.  

H. LINKING TO INDIVIDUAL FEDERAL AGENCIES THAT
ARE NOT COVERED IN THE REGULAR DATABASES

There are a limited, though important, number of Federal government agencies which,
largely for reasons of protection of intelligence and national security, are not required
to list all their job openings on the official Federal government website, the USAJOBS
database. The major agencies among this group are as outlined below, along with
their websites by which you can reach them to apply for or inquire about job openings.

The Executive Branch, U.S. Agency for International Development, Recruitment
Division (www.usaid.gov);

Central Intelligence Agency or CIA (www.cia.gov);

The Defense Intelligence Agency, Civilian Personnel www.dia.mil);

Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors (www.federalreserve.gov);

Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI (www.fbi.gov),

Government Accountability Office (www.gao.gov);

National Security Agency, College Relations Branch (www.nsa.gov);

Tennessee Valley Authority (www.tva.gov);

U.S. Department of State, Human Resources (www.state.gov));

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Human Resources and Employment
(www.nrc.gov);

For the Judicial Branch, U.S. Federal Courts (www.uscourts.gov);

For the Legislative Branch, Library of Congress Employment Office (www.loc.gov);

U.S. House of Representative, Chief Administrative Officer, Human Resources Division,
B721 Ford House Office Bldg, Washington DC 20515, and U.S. House of
Representative (for all other House offices not covered by the first one), B227
Longworth House Office Building www.house.gov;

The U.S. Senate, Senate Placement Office. www.senate.gov.

You may reach any other Federal government agencies you need to reach which is not
already listed above or in the USAJOBS database, by visiting the following website:  

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml   
A-Z of U.S Government Departments and Agencies.

Finally, NOTE that the local addresses and phone numbers for these offices are listed
in the blue pages of the area telephone book.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & AID SOURCES FOR FED JOB HUNTING