Responsibilities of the Office of Personnel Management.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) The Office of Personnel Management will provide appropriate data to assist Federal agencies in making determinations of underrepresentation. The process for making such determinations is described in sections II and III (c) of the “Guidelines for the Development of a Federal Recruitment Program to Implement 5 U.S.C. 7201, as amended” (See appendix to this part). The Office will develop and publish more specific criteria for statistical measurements to be used by individual agencies, and will develop further guidance on— (1) Agency employment statistics and civilian labor force statistics to be used in making determinations of underrepresentation, on a national, regional or other geographic basis as appropriate; (2) Groupings of grades and/or other occupational categories to be used in implementing agency programs; (3) Occupational categories and job series for which expanded external recruitment efforts are most appropriate, and those for which expanded and innovative internal recruitment is appropriate; and (4) Other factors which may be considered by the agency, in consultation with Office of Personnel Management, to make determinations of underrepresentation and to develop recruitment programs focused on specific occupational categories. (b) The Office will assist agencies in carrying out their programs by— (1) Identifying major recruitment sources of women and members of minority groups and providing guidance on internal and external recruitment activities directed to

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 720.203