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Human Resource Specialist (Recruitment & Placement/Classification)
About this role
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all specialized experience and time in grade requirements within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement, 10/20/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11.
The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If your most recent non-award SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional non-award SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one year time-in-grade.
Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. GS-12 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to comprehensive knowledge and skill in applying federal human resources laws and regulations, human resources policy, guidance, or operating procedures for complex issues requiring substantial interpretation; providing advice and guidance on difficult issues, clarifying conflicting guidance; performing analysis of operating procedures and providing recommendations that meet immediate as well as long term needs pertaining to at least one of the following human resources disciplines: Title 5 recruitment/staffing or pay and compensation; experience in related disciplines must demonstrate activities such as, adjudicating veterans preference, developing vacancy announcements, job analysis, certificates of eligibles, formulating job offers, and determining eligibility under various hiring authorities and flexibilities; providing advice and recommendation on the development of position descriptions and utilizing human resources automated systems to process, manage, and track HR related actions.