Reinstatement

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The federal sector is growing at its fastest pace in decades. Over the past two years total federal civil service employment has increased 10%, an additional 182,629 workers. Jobs are available nationwide and overseas and additional growth is projected due to recent legislation. 

The new health care legislation calls for the formation of 150 new regulatory agencies and commissions and many more federal regulators are needed to manage failed banks and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds.

The federal government now owns 60% of General Motors, all of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac plus they took over 100% of the student loan program recently! There are many more jobs projected and those who start the process early will have a better chance of success.

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 Eligibility Requirements

You must have held a career or career-conditional appointment at some time in the past. If so, there is no time limit on reinstatement eligibility for those who: Have veterans' preference, or Acquired career tenure by completing 3 years of substantially continuous creditable service.

If you do not have veterans' preference or did not acquire career tenure, you may be reinstated within 3 years after the date of your separation. Reinstatement eligibility may be extended by certain activities that occur during the 3-year period after separation from your last career or career-conditional appointment. Examples of these activities are:

• Federal employment under temporary, term, or similar appointments.
• Federal employment in excepted, non-appropriated fund, or Senior Executive Service positions.
• Federal employment in the legislative and judicial branches.
• Active military duty terminated under honorable conditions.
• Service with the District of Columbia Government prior to January 1, 1980 (and other service for certain employees converted to the District's independent merit system).
• Certain government employment or full-time training that provided valuable training and experience for the job to be filled.
• Periods of overseas residence of a dependent who followed a Federal military or civilian employee to an overseas post of duty.

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How Do I Apply

You must conduct your own job search. Reinstatement eligibility does not guarantee you a job offer. Hiring agencies have the discretion to determine the sources of applicants they will consider.

Individuals usually apply to agencies in response to vacancies announced under the merit promotion program. Some agencies accept applications only when they have an appropriate open merit promotion announcement, while others accept applications at any time. If you are seeking a higher grade or a position with more promotion potential than you previously held, generally you must apply under a merit promotion announcement and rank among the best-qualified applicants to be selected. Status applicants include individuals who are eligible for reinstatement.

CLARIFICATION: Reinstatement eligible often assume that they can apply for any open job that they qualify for non-competitively. This is not the case. If the highest grade that you last held in your federal job was a GS-9 grade you can only be rehired into a GS-9 position or lower grade non-competitively. You can't be hired non-competitively into a higher graded position. The only way for a reinstatement eligible to be hired into a hired graded position is to bid competitively through an open job announcement.

Reinstatement eligibles should contact agencies in their area to determine if job vacancies exist. If an agency knows that a fully qualified reinstatement eligible applicant is available, and they like that persons application and interview ,they can be hired on-the-spot. Agencies like having this option for several reasons. First, they are getting a trained and qualified employee. Secondly they don't have to advertise the vacancy thereby saving considerable time, sometimes months including personnel action processing, to get the job filled.

To establish your reinstatement eligibility, you must provide a copy of your most recent SF 50, Notification of Personnel Action, showing tenure group 1 or 2, along with your application. You may obtain a copy of your personnel records from your former agency if you recently separated.

The Federal Records Center has been established as a depository for official personnel folders of persons no longer in the Federal service. Federal agencies, generally, transfer employment records to the Federal Records Center thirty days after the employee has been separated from Federal service.

The telephone numbers and e-mail addresses listed may only be used to contact the facilities regarding procedures for submitting written requests for information. The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USC 552a) and OPM require a signed and dated written request for information from Federal records. No requests for information from personnel or any other type of records will be accepted by telephone or e-mail.

Federal Records Center
National Archives and Records Administration
111 Winnebago Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63118
(314) 801-9250, FAX: 314-801-9269
Email: cpr.center@nara.gov 

Inquiries must include your full name under which formerly employed, social security number, date of birth, and to the extent known, former Federal employing agencies, addresses and dates of such employment

Locating Agency Merit Promotion Announcements

Locate job announcements on our site by occupation or by agency. Also explore all jobs that you may be eligible for in both the public and private sectors. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management makes job announcements available through their online www.usajobs.gov web site. You can also contact agencies direct in which you are interested in working for specific application instructions.

CLARIFICATION: I suggest that you contact all agencies in your area that could utilize your job skills and send them an updated OF-612 form or federal style resume along with a copy of your last SF-50 as mentioned above. Also send a cover letter describing what job you are looking for with a general introduction. Address the cover letter to the Human Resource Manager or Personnel Director. Contact your local Federal Executive Board (FEB) for a list of agencies in your area. Most FEBs now have are online web sties. 

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