Enhance your federal classification expertise by advancing core competencies through in-depth instruction in intermediate-level principles and practices. Strengthen your ability to apply complex classification rules and tools to accurately evaluate diverse position types within your agency.
Key Insights
- Strengthens classification skills by focusing on advanced concepts such as mixed-grade and mixed-series positions, interdisciplinary roles, and positions lacking directly applicable standards.
- Trains HR specialists to utilize key federal resources, including the OPM classification standards, the Classifier’s Handbook, and the digest of significant classification decisions.
- Develops analytical techniques such as desk audit procedures and the application of classification guides for supervisory and leader positions.
This lesson is a preview from our Intermediate Position Classification Course. Enroll in a course for detailed lessons, live instructor support, and project-based training.
Welcome to the Graduate School USA's Intermediate Position Classification Course. I'm Samita Robertson. I am your instructor for this course.
This course is designed to effectively assist you in taking your classification skills to a higher level. You now have the foundation and the principles of classification and the practices of classification at a very basic level.
And so this class is designed to increase your ability to apply more advanced concepts to the classification work you do in your agency. And so the overall purpose of this course is to provide HR specialist liaisons and other responsible individuals for carrying out the classification functions at a higher level of knowledge, skills, and abilities so you can become a competent journey-level classifier. And so the learning objectives for this course are describe and apply the primary references to complete a range of complicated classification projects, to explain and apply the rules for classification, mixed grade and mixed series positions, explain and apply the rules for classifying a position without directly applicable standards, explain and apply the rules for classifying positions with a grade or factor level that is not described in the published classification standards.
And we're going to define an interdisciplinary position and explain the rules for classifying those types of positions. We're going to discuss and apply the classification guides used to classify general schedule leader positions and supervisory positions. We're going to describe and identify the techniques used to effectively conduct desk audits.
Now, for this course, you are going to have to have access to OPM's website. You're going to be going there to look at the introduction to the position classification standards, the classifier's handbook. You should know where the digest of significant classification decisions is found and the classification standard.
And so we want you to be able to understand all of those things and know where to find all of those resources and tools for this training. And so you should have the links to the reference material in your participant guide. And so let's get started on module one.
