Other Diversity Web Pages

General Information

Federal Employment Opportunities.  The USAJOBS Federal Employment Information system is the U.S. government's official site for jobs and employment information.  Includes current Federal employment-related topics and programs, complete vacancy announcements, application packages and forms, as well as online application and USAJOBS by email. http://www.usajobs.opm.gov

Building and Maintaining a Diverse, High-Quality Workforce: A Guide for Federal Agencies.  A tool to help Federal agencies develop an effective program to build and maintain a competent workforce that looks like America.  http://www.opm.gov/Diversity/guide.htm

Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Recruitment Program (FEORP) Report to Congress.  FY 2001 annual report of January 31, 2002.  Analyzes the representation of women and individual minorities in the Federal workforce in comparison to the civilian labor force.  Also describes individual agency activities to implement the Hispanic Employment Initiative Nine-Point Plan. http://www.opm.gov/feorp

Diversity Profiles. Statistical reports about the representation of women, individual minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans in the Federal workforce. http://www.opm.gov/employ/diversity/stats/profiles.htm

Outstanding Scholars and Bilingual/Bicultural Programs (Luevano Consent Decree).  Background information about the Luevano Consent Decree and the two programs it created. http://www.opm.gov/employ/luevano.htm

Employment of Non-citizens. The Federal Government gives strong priority to hiring United States citizens and nationals, but non-citizens may be hired under certain circumstances.  http://www.opm.gov/employ/html/non_cit.htm

Recruitment Incentives. Results of an OPM study about Federal agency use of recruitment, retention, and relocation incentives, which have been available since 1991. http://www.opm.gov/studies/main.htm

Student Educational Employment Program.  Provides Federal employment opportunities to students.  It has two components: the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) and the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP). http://www.opm.gov/employ/students/intro.htm

Studentjobs.gov.   This is a joint project between OPM and the U.S. Department of Education.  It provides students from high school to college and graduate school levels with one-stop information about special employment opportunities for students in the Federal government. Provides access to OPM's USAJOBS database of thousands of opportunities, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. http://www.studentjobs.gov/aboutus.htm

Special Efforts

Three groups are still underrepresented in the Federal workforce: persons with disabilities, Hispanics, and women.  OPM is leading special efforts to remedy the underrepresentation of these groups.

Persons with Disabilities

Job Opportunities for People with Disabilities.  The unemployment rate of working-age adults with severe disabilities has remained at around 70 percent for several years.  This site describes the steps involved in seeking a Federal job and the accessible formats in which employment information is available.  The USAJOBS web site has employment information available in text format for the visually impaired. http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/ei11.htm

Web Site on Federal Employment of People with Disabilities. This site provides a simple and straightforward mechanism to help Americans, with and without disabilities, better understand how to hire and retain persons with disabilities.

Our target audiences are applicants and employees with disabilities, Federal managers and supervisors, and human resources professionals.  The site was launched in June 2002.  http://www.opm.gov/disaiblity.

People with Disabilities in the Federal Government: An Employment Guide. Provides guidance, information, and references to help Federal employers in their efforts to hire and advance employees with disabilities. http://www.opm.gov/employ/disabilities/index.htm

Appointment of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities.  Final regulations creating a new Governmentwide excepted appointing authority, with noncompetitive conversion to the competitive service for persons with psychiatric disabilities. http://www.opm.gov/Fedregis/2000/65-41867-a.htm

Reasonable Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities. Describes procedures prescribed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. http://www.eeoc.gov

Hispanics

Hispanic Employment Program (HEP):  The Hispanic Employment Program's overall objective is to ensure that Hispanics have an equal opportunity to compete fairly in all aspects of Federal employment, i.e., recruitment, training, upward mobility, career counseling, developmental details, promotions, and any other condition of employment.  The HEP is a subcommittee of the Denver Federal Executive Board (DFEB). 

Hispanic Employment Initiatives.  Hispanics are the only minority group that is still underrepresented in the Federal workforce.  Executive Order 13171 addresses the issue governmentwide, creates an Interagency Task Force at senior political levels, and mandates annual reports to the President. 

The first annual Report on Hispanic Employment in the Federal Government was issued October 12, 2001. http://www.opm.gov/diversity/hispanic/2001Report2Pres00.htm

The Executive Order embeds the Hispanic Employment Initiative--Nine-Point Plan, designed to help Federal agencies recruit, advance, and retain qualified Hispanics.  The Order is at http://www.opm.gov/employ/diversity/Hispanic/index.htm. For a detailed description of the Plan, go to http://www.opm.gov/pressrel/html/9point.htm.

Hispanic Employment Initiative: Creating a Government That Looks Like America.  Information available to job seekers via USAJOBS about the Hispanic employment initiative.  http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/ei59.htm

OPM Memo on Hispanic Employment Initiative. Memorandum for heads of executive departments and independent agencies sharing the Hispanic employment initiative and inviting them to join OPM in working aggressively to ensure the full participation of Hispanics in the Federal workforce. http://www.opm.gov/employ/diversity/9ptplan.htm

Women

Women in the Federal Government: A Guide to Recruiting and Retaining. The representation of women in the Federal workforce continues to lag behind their representation in the national civilian labor force (CLF).  This is particularly true for white and Hispanic women.  This guide contains a list of human resources management approaches and tools agencies may use to design recruitment and retention strategies and to resolve staffing problems.  http://www.opm.gov/employ/women/index.htm

Other Efforts: Veterans

Special Appointing Authorities for Veterans.  This section of USAJOBS describes special appointing authorities available to hire military veterans.   http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/b2b.htm

Vets Info Guide: Civil Service Employment and Veterans.  This handbook was designed to help veterans understand the entitlements they have earned.  Briefly explains how the Federal employment system works and how veterans' preference and the special appointing authorities operate within that system.  http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetsinfo.htm

Vet Guide.  Explains the special rights and privileges that veterans enjoy in Federal civil service employment.  The guide conveniently summarizes material from many laws and regulations that affect the employment of veterans.  The guide will help Federal human resources management specialists ensure that veterans receive the advantages they have earned.  http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetguide.htm