Description:
Determine creditable service and correctly compute all four types of service computation dates (SCDs): leave, retirement, reduction-in-force (RIF), and Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Recognize when and how to change an employee's SCD.
Sessions will be taught virtually with live instructor-led interaction, individual and group exercises emphasis on peer learning.
- Two half-day online course sessions; three hours of live instructor-led interaction per day
- Sessions will include practical individual and group exercises, poll questions, and text and audio discussions.
Note: Students should take one of the following courses or have equivalent experience before enrolling in this course: Federal Staffing and Placement (STAF7009), Basic Staffing and Placement (STAF7100A), Federal Staffing (STAF7102A), or Processing Federal Personnel Actions (STAF7010D).
Tuition:
$ 499.00
Credits:
1.8 CEU's
Class Type:
This course is currently being offered in the following training modalities:
- Online
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF7602A
- Class Length: This class is listed as a 1 day course.
- Virtual Instructor-Led - STAF7602A
- In-Person Classroom
- Calculating Service Computation Dates -STAF7602D
- Class Length: This class is listed as a 1 day course.
- Calculating Service Computation Dates -STAF7602D
- On-site
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the basis for the federal merit system
- Describe staffing processes in the federal government
- Assess minimum qualifications using OPM's Qualifications Standards
- Apply requirements for certifying best-qualified candidates in competitive and noncompetitive processes
- Learn how to assist managers and supervisors in recruiting and retaining top talent
- Ensure interviews are a positive extension of the staffing process
- Apply the procedures that must be followed for a legal selection
- Identify pay-setting options for recruitment and salary negotiation
- Module 1
- Verifying Prior Service
- Module 2
- Computation of the SCD-Leave
- Module 3
- How and When to Change the SCD
- Module 4
- SCD-RIF
- Module 5
- SCD-TSP
- Module 6
- SCD-Retirement
- Module 7
- SCD-Severance Pay