by Erin Tindell
Air Force Personnel, Services and Manpower Public Affairs
5/16/2012 - JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO - RANDOLPH, Texas -- Beginning this summer, all Air Force civil service employees will have transitioned to a resume based system when seeking new positions for Air Force civilian vacancies worldwide.
In 2010, the Air Force Personnel Center announced the transition to a single staffing tool for all Air Force job seekers utilizing USA Staffing to post all job announcements on USAJobs.gov. The final implementation to the single staffing tool will transition Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., employees in late July.
USA Staffing is a web-based system that automates civilian employee recruitment, assessment, referral and notification processes. It generates vacancy announcements for appropriated fund civilian positions and posts them on the Air Force civilian careers website www.afciviliancareers.com and at USAJobs.gov. Additionally, USA Staffing accepts applications via Internet or fax; analyzes applicant qualifications; and notifies applicants of results.
The Air Force now requires all job candidates to submit a resume when applying for a job announcement posted on USAJobs. Once a job announcement closes, hiring managers receive copies of candidate resumes instead of copies of Air Force employee career briefs.
Having the ability to compare candidate resumes instead of career briefs helps hiring managers select the best qualified candidates for vacant positions within 15 days, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.
"The Air Force transition to the resume based system ensures the right people are placed in the right jobs, and to help agencies accomplish their mission while respecting the merit system principles and veterans preference." said Nancy Tackett, an AFPC supervisory human resources specialist.
Job seekers who need help capturing their qualifications on a resume should visit an installation Airman and Family Readiness Center, which offers resume-building assistance.
For more information about civilian careers opportunities, go to www.afciviliancareers.com. For information about other personnel issues, visit the Air Force Personnel Services website at https://gum-crm.csd.disa.mil.
Comments
5/21/2012 2:04:48 PM ET I think this new process is good if it actually works. One of the problems I see is the favortism in the hiring process not just in the civilian aspect but with the STEP college students as well. I have noticed the supervisors play the good-ol boy when selecting people and they selesct college kids who have parents working in the same department.There are definetly bias supervisors in charge. I think the Air Force should place these airman getting the boot in these supervisor and division chief positions. The Air Force have invested time and money in the airman that are getting the boot due to reduction in force. Not to go off the subject but what do you do when you are hired for a position and for the first three months you sit because you are told there is not much for you to do. Then you are told to help the college interns with their work only to look over and see the interns chatting with thir friends on facebook and watching music videos all day. I guess it frees
Lisa, CONUS
5/17/2012 8:34:12 AM ET A good thing too with all these new Air Force civilian positions opening up with all the increase in budgets. Oh wait what we really have is a single unstaffing tool with the VSIP and coming RIF.
Jerry, Oklahoma
5/16/2012 5:30:56 PM ET The Air Force transition to the resume based system ensures the right people are placed in the right jobs and to help agencies accomplish their mission while respecting the merit system principles and veterans preference.Really If you believe that then I have some land for sale. Anybody can put anything into a resume. Hiring officials rarely if ever validate resume info. To me it seems the only thing this will do is allow the good-old boy system to flourishthink about it.
Don't Believe It, Anywhere but here
5/16/2012 1:42:23 PM ET Misleading headline. Should have read Single Civilian Personnel Resume Tool goes AF Wide. Was expecting this to be about a single common staffwork package tool used by HAF and MAJCOMs. Right now they dont talk to each other.
