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          FSH 6109.16 - DEMONSTRATION PROJECT HANDBOOK

                            ZERO CODE

                            Contents


01      AUTHORITY

02      OBJECTIVES

03      POLICY

04      RESPONSIBILITY
04.1    Washington Office
04.2    Field Units

05      DEFINITIONS

06      EXHIBITS
06.1    USDA Demonstration Project Standard Operating Procedures
06.2    USDA Demonstration Project Plan
        
        
         CHAPTER 10 - RECRUITMENT, CANDIDATE EVALUATION, 
                          AND SELECTION

                            Contents


10.1    Authority
10.4    Responsibility
10.41   Experimental Unit [Reserved]
10.42   Comparison Unit [Reserved]
10.6    Candidates for Recruitment and Selection Under Demonstration 
        Project

11      RECRUITMENT AND IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATES
11.1    Personnel Actions
11.11   Preparation of Form SF-52, Request for Personnel Action
11.12   Decision To Fill a Position
11.2    Identification of Selective Placement Factors
11.3    Consideration of Reemployment Priority List and Displaced 
        Employee Program Candidates
11.4    Qualifications
11.41   Definition of Quality Experience
11.42   Modified X-118 Qualification Standards
11.42a  Types of Modifications
11.42b  Reasons for Modifications
11.42c  Standards in Vacancy Announcements
11.42d  Documentation
11.5    Recruitment
11.51   Vacancy Announcement Requirements
11.51a  Notification of State Employment Office and Federal Job 
        Information Center
11.51b  Required Components of Announcements
11.51c  Optional Components of Announcements
11.51d  Length of Advertisement Period
11.51e  Required and Optional Components of Candidates' 
        Applications
11.51f  Paid Advertising
11.51g  Timeliness of Receipt of Applications
11.51h  Numbering System for Vacancy Announcements
11.52   Identification of Recruitment Sources
11.53   Disposition of Unsolicited Applications
11.54   Merger of Candidates From Various Recruitment Sources

12      CONSIDERATION OF CANDIDATES
12.1    Determination of 
        Basic Eligibility
12.2    Determination of 
        Shortage Category
12.21   Area for Shortage Category
12.22   Direct Hire Authorities
12.23   Number of Internal Candidates
12.24   Referral of Candidates in Shortage Categories
12.3    Evaluation of Candidates in Non-shortage Categories
12.31   Evaluation of Academic Achievement
12.32   Referral of Candidates in Non-shortage Categories

13      SELECTION AND APPOINTMENT
13.1    Selection of Candidates
13.11   Veterans Preference
13.11a  Appeals of Nonselection of Preference Eligibles
13.11b  Documentation To Support Veterans Preference
13.12   Reference Checks and Interviews
13.13   Time Limits on Referral Lists (Certificates) and Reporting 
        Dates
13.14   Ninety-Day Rule
13.2    Decision To Authorize a Recruitment Incentive
13.3    Verification That Selectee Meets Conditions of Employment

14      CANDIDATE NOTIFICATION
14.1    Firm Offer of Employment and Establishment of Effective Date

15      EMPLOYEE APPEALS
15.1    Request for Reconsideration of Examining Decisions
           
           
            CHAPTER 20 - EXTENDED PROBATIONARY PERIOD

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21  Establishment and Tracking of Extended Probationary Period
22  Decision To Convert Employee to Nonprobationary Status