Among the highest priorities of the IRS workforce recruitment strategy is building a workforce that is highly skilled, diverse and inclusive. In order to achieve this, we use the Schedule A Excepted Service Appointing Authority. This authority allows for appointments for positions that are specifically excepted from the competitive service by law, the President, or the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
People with disabilities, veterans, and students are eligible to participate in the Schedule A Excepted Service Appointment Authority. This appointing authority enables our teams to expedite the hiring process. In turn, we are better able to maintain a workforce that is highly skilled, and diverse. Our strength is in our diversity which allows for unique approaches to problem-solving, perspectives and experiences. If you have a desire to works as a civil servant in an exciting career with competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career advancement. We would like to hear from you!
Please review this page to find information to any questions you may have related to the Excepted Service Appointing Authority.
Schedule A (5 C.F.R. 213.3102(u)) is an Excepted Service Appointing Authority for Federal agencies to tap into a diverse talent pool of people with disabilities without going through the (often-lengthy) traditional hiring process. Eligible applicants must be a person with severe physical, psychiatric, or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, or intellectual disability, psychiatric disorders, muscular or neurological disorders. Other less obvious disabilities are also subject to eligibility such as lupus, AIDS, diabetes, or heart disease. Other groups that may apply using the Schedule A appointment authority are disabled veterans with a 30% or more rating from the Department of Veterans Affairs or Department of Defense. As well as, select disabled veterans recently discharged with an honorable or general discharge may be hired through the Veteran Recruitment Act (VRA) appointment authority. The probationary period for a Schedule A appointment is two (2) years.
Excepted service appointing authorities are critical tools for increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the Federal Government. Federal Government civilian positions are traditionally acquired through a merit based competitive civil service hiring process. This means that an applicant will have to compete against other applicants to ultimately be chosen for the desired position.
The Excepted Service Appointment Authority is a streamline hiring process that allows applicants satisfying all Federal requirements to be exempted from the traditional competitive hiring process and placed into an appointed hiring status.
There are four classifications identified as “schedules” established under the Excepted Service Appointing Authority. The schedule(s) are simply titled by letter A, B, C, D. This page will focus specifically upon Schedule A (5 C.F.R. 213.3102(u)) hiring authority for people with disabilities.
Applicants choosing to apply for Federal appointments though the Schedule A process must provide proof of eligibility under 5 C.F.R. 213.3102(u)
No, how you apply is completely up to you. Schedule A applicants may apply for a vacancy in the following ways:
The IRS offers non-competitive placement of persons with disabilities by maintaining repositories of eligible Schedule A candidates. Eligible candidates, wishing to be considered for Schedule A Non-Competitive placement, should submit their information to the announcements found here.
Candidates will have to opportunity to indicate the IRS Career fields in which they are interested and should upload all supporting documentation with their submission (Resume, Schedule A letter, SF-256, etc.). As managers request Schedule A candidates, applicants will be provided from the repository. At their discretion, hiring managers may then contact selected candidates for an interview.
No. Unfortunately, our office can not apply to competitive vacancy announcements on behalf of an Excepted Service job seeker(s). Applicants, regardless of status, must independently apply to competitive vacancies through the USAJOBS platform. Within USAJOBS each vacancy is labeled with a unique hiring path so applicants may determine positions that are applicable to their status. Please view the content here to best explain hiring pathways.
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