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handle is hein.crs/govebcs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional aResearch Service ~ ~~ ~informing the legislative d bate since 1914___________________ Executive Order 13932 on Assessing and Hiring Job Candidates in Federal Agencies August 21, 2020 Background President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13932, titled Modernizing and Reforming the Assessment and Hiring of Federal Job Candidates, on June 26, 2020. The E.O. seeks to alter the federal hiring process by removing potentially unnecessary education qualifications to ensure that the federal hiring process is merit-based. The merit system is generally held to be a keystone of the federal civil service. This E.O. aligns with the President's Management Agenda, which identifies enhanced alignment and strategic management of the Federal workforce as a primary goal. The E.O. also appears to align with certain aspects of current law. In particular, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and agencies are prohibited by law from prescribing a minimum educational requirement for competitive service positions, albeit with limited exceptions for scientific, technical, and certain other positions. OPM has issued guidance on E.O. 13932 for the increased use of skills- and competency-based assessments in the federal hiring process. OPM's guidance explained that the agency's website already outlines a number of competency-based assessment options. OPM's guidance also offers a schedule for the implementation of the E.O. Contents of Executive Order 13932 Purpose Section 1 of the E.O. emphasizes the merit-based foundation of the U.S. civil service and suggests that hiring within the federal government should reflect this principle. The E.O. posits that the American public's perception of the federal hiring process is important to maintaining public confidence in the civil service. In order to keep up with private employers that have modernized their hiring processes, the E.O. suggests that the federal government should favor skills- and competency-based hiring techniques over degree-based educational requirements to assess some job candidates. The E.O. addresses the potential exclusion of capable candidates who have the skills and competencies to be successful in a given Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11490 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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