Presentation delivered by John Allen of the Office of Personnel Management on 12/8/2011 at The George Washington University at the FedCollege recruiting conference co-organized by RECSOLU and CollegeRecruiter.com.

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2. Early Day Web Sites
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5. What is USAJOBS?
• Started as a standard centralized job board for Federal job
opportunities
– Previously applicants had to search more than 450
individual government web sites
– Were often challenged by outdated paper and faxed
based applications
• Enhanced over the years to a applicant-centric job search
and apply web site that leverages a new open integration
framework to utilize many other tools such as assessments,
alternate sourcing, social media, reports and so on.
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6. Today
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7. Understanding Federal Job Locations
• Geographical duty location
– Official location (commuting area) of the position as
defined on the SF-50 (HR Staffing specialist)
• Geographical Area of Consideration
– Where applicants must live in order to be considered
• Duty Location
– Certified area for competitively sourced positions (HR
Staffing specialist)
• Job Location
– Where the Pin appears on a map is where I will be/want
to be sitting (Applicant)
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8. Scenario 1 – Oklahoma City, OK
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9. Scenario 2 – Paris France
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10. Scenario 3 – State Department
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11. Scenario 4 - Telework
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12. Scenario 5 – Location negotiated
upon selection
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