# AI for Federal Recruitment & Staffing Course (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

Federal HR Specialists are being asked to do more hiring with fewer people - and generative AI is now part of the toolkit. This self-paced course shows staffing specialists how to use AI responsibly to draft job analyses, build crediting plans, write plain-language vacancy announcements, and generate structured interview question banks - while staying compliant with OPM guidance, merit system principles, and USA Staffing requirements. Available as instructor-led and self-paced.

## What you'll learn

- Explain how generative AI fits into the federal hiring lifecycle and where it does and does not belong under OPM and merit system guidance.
- Apply prompt-writing techniques to draft and refine a job analysis aligned to OPM competencies.
- Generate a crediting plan that maps competencies to assessment questions appropriate for USA Staffing.
- Produce a plain-language, Section 508-conscious vacancy announcement that reflects skills-based hiring principles.
- Build a structured, legally defensible interview question bank tied to identified competencies.
- Evaluate AI-generated outputs for bias, hallucination, PII exposure, and compliance with federal hiring law.
- Identify appropriate human-in-the-loop checkpoints throughout the AI-assisted hiring workflow.

## Prerequisites

Participants should have a working knowledge of the federal hiring process (Hiring Elements/End-to-End Roadmap), familiarity with USA Staffing or a similar talent acquisition system, and general comfort with web-based tools (no prior AI experience required), along with access to an agency-approved generative AI tool such as ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude for the hands-on portion.

## Instructors

### Steve Pesklo — Instructor

Steve is an energetic trainer who focuses on applying technical concepts to everyday work practices. He is the founder and president of SoftLake Solutions, a company that specializes in providing data and AI applications to identify fraud for Internal Audit, Criminal Investigations, Forensic Accounting, Privacy, and Compliance.

Steve brings a large amount of experience across multiple industries and government agencies. He is an expert in implementing large data analysis projects across the world, including Inland Revenue in the UK and Argentina, New Zealand, Africa and across Europe. Previously, he was the manager of Data Architecture and Data Services for a large mortgage company. He is a frequent speaker on data analytics and project management topics and speaks fluent German. He has been teaching at the Graduate School for over 10 years.

Steve has an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas and a B.S. in Computer Science from California Lutheran University and the Universität Salzburg in Austria. He is certified as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $675