Post by Legal Beagle on Aug 31, 2009 8:10:19 GMT -5
33.1 million hours of extra work for OPM because of 2 questions??? Wonder what the work hours tally is for the AR?!?!?
The Office of Personnel Management will continue using a job application form it had considered removing from USAJobs, but the agency has asked for comment on whether the form imposes too great a burden on human resources offices.
The Optional Form Application for Federal Employment collects information similar to what's found on a standard résumé, said Max Stier, president of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. But it also includes two questions that are important to federal agencies when they make hiring decisions: whether an applicant is a U.S. citizen, and whether an applicant is a veteran. The form also asks whether an applicant has been a federal employee before, and whether they are seeking reinstatement based on their status as a career employee.
In February, when OPM first proposed dropping the form from USAJobs, Howard Weizmann, then the agency's deputy director, wrote in a Federal Register notice that OPM estimated 50.1 million applications per year would be filled out through USAJobs. He said it takes human resources officers 40 minutes to read through the Résumé Builder, which collects similar information about work experience and educational background, and the optional form for each application -- creating 33.1 million hours of work annually.
Full story: www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43461&dcn=e_wfw
The Office of Personnel Management will continue using a job application form it had considered removing from USAJobs, but the agency has asked for comment on whether the form imposes too great a burden on human resources offices.
The Optional Form Application for Federal Employment collects information similar to what's found on a standard résumé, said Max Stier, president of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. But it also includes two questions that are important to federal agencies when they make hiring decisions: whether an applicant is a U.S. citizen, and whether an applicant is a veteran. The form also asks whether an applicant has been a federal employee before, and whether they are seeking reinstatement based on their status as a career employee.
In February, when OPM first proposed dropping the form from USAJobs, Howard Weizmann, then the agency's deputy director, wrote in a Federal Register notice that OPM estimated 50.1 million applications per year would be filled out through USAJobs. He said it takes human resources officers 40 minutes to read through the Résumé Builder, which collects similar information about work experience and educational background, and the optional form for each application -- creating 33.1 million hours of work annually.
Full story: www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43461&dcn=e_wfw