Identify and Measure the Right Skills for Federal Jobs
Conducting an accurate job analysis is crucial to the assessment and selection of qualified new hires for federal agencies. By performing a systematic analysis of a position, agencies can determine the competencies, knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics someone must possess in order to successfully perform the work required for that job.
Our Job Analysis module provides agencies with a structured and centralized solution to determine the tasks and competencies required to support hiring efforts and can better enable other phases of the hiring process when used with the rest of the FedHire federal talent acquisition system. By harnessing industry best practices to perform a federal job analysis, your agency can administer the appropriate assessments based on the critical aspects of each job analyzed. The final Job Analysis includes the required content, alongside the recorded approvals, which provides documentation to legally defend your agency’s hiring procedures.
FedHire Job Analysis streamlines the process necessary to document and defend candidate selections and continue to develop a dynamic workforce. Users can easily collaborate with subject matter experts to document the input and results required for an accurate job analysis. The module leverages competency or task weighting, as well as importance, needed-on-entry, and distinguishing value evaluations. With critical competencies identified, users can ensure alignment with the right hiring assessments and create an effective crediting plan for the vacancy.
With Job Analysis, agencies can build and manage their own custom Competency Library and maintain control with user-based permissions. Users can use browse, sort, and search tools to quickly find existing competencies within the library using titles and definitions or add new ones into the system. ApplyGov can also provide a competency starter set that reflects the OPM MOSAIC competency list.
As the foundation for all assessment and selection decisions, the Job Analysis module connects seamlessly throughout ApplyGov’s federal talent acquisition system (FedHire) for a streamlined end-to-end hiring process. When used with our Position Classification system, users can pull in duties/tasks directly from approved PDs. In Hiring Management, HR users can link approved JAs to the JOA, automatically pull in the JA-identified questions as the crediting plan, and get added to the case file – saving time and ensuring consistency when deciding on assessments to distinguish the right skills. When a crediting plan is used, scoring is automatically assigned based on the JOA.
Develop a complete understanding of your position requirements based on an extensive examination of the work performed and the competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for each position with our federal job analysis and competency modeling services. Work with ApplyGov’s Professional Services team to better align employee selection and career development initiatives with your organizational goals.
