Special Hiring Programs
We have specific hiring programs for veterans, people with disabilities, students, recent graduates and other applicants.
Veterans
- Veterans Recruitment Appointment
- Selectees receive an excepted appointment with conversion to a career or career-conditional appointment after satisfactory completion of 2 years of service.
- Appointments are up to the GS-11 paygrade level or equivalent.
- An established training program is required for veterans with less than 15 years of education.
- Veterans Employment Opportunities Act
- Selectees receive a career or career-conditional appointment.
- Eligible veterans can be appointed under an internal agency announcement.
- Veterans do not receive veteran preference.
- Candidates must be preference-eligible or a veteran separated after 3 years of continuous active-duty service performed under honorable conditions.
- Disabled Veterans (30% or More)
- Candidates can be noncompetitively appointed to positions they qualify for.
- Initial appointments for more than 60 days are time-limited.
- Selectees may be noncompetitively converted to a career or career-conditional appointment after demonstrating satisfactory performance.
- Additional Programs for Disabled Veterans
- Operation Warfighter Program (DHS).
- Non-Paid Work Experience Programs. Read more at Veteran Readiness and Employment (VA).
- Coming Home to Work Program.
- Read more at Feds Hire Vets (OPM).
- Apply to available positions through USAJOBS.
Individuals with Disabilities (Schedule A)
- Eligible individuals may be considered for any job opening until a selection is made.
- Selectees receive an initial 2-year appointment with possible conversion to a permanent appointment.
- Read details about requirements for eligibility on the OPM website.
- Apply to available positions through USAJOBS.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Peace Corps Employees, and Former VISTA Volunteers
- Eligible individuals may be considered for any job opening until a selection is made.
- Former Peace Corps volunteers and AmeriCorps VISTA members have 1 year of noncompetitive eligibility. This eligibility may be extended for up to 3 years for individuals who serve in the military, study at a recognized institution of higher learning, are selected and are undergoing a background investigation for employment with USCIS, or engage in another activity that we determine warrants extension.
- Peace Corps employees have 3 years of noncompetitive eligibility.
- Apply to available positions through USAJOBS.
Former Federal Employees
- Three consecutive years of federal service qualify you for lifetime reinstatement eligibility.
- Less than 3 consecutive years of federal service qualifies you for 3 years of reinstatement eligibility.
- Preference-eligible veterans have lifetime reinstatement rights.
- Apply and compete as if you were a current federal employee for open positions on USAJOBS.
Certain Military Spouses
- Eligible individuals may be considered for any job opening until a selection is made.
- Eligible individuals include:
- Spouses of active-duty military members;
- Spouses of 100% disabled service members; and
- Un-remarried widows or widowers of service members who died while on active duty.
- Read more at Special Hiring Authorities for Military Spouses & Family Members (OPM).
- Apply to available positions through USAJOBS.
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