3 Employment and Placement
310 General Provisions
311 Functional Responsibilities
311.1 Basic Principles
311.2 Administrative Responsibilities
320 Recruitment
321 General Provisions for Recruitment
321.1 Anticipating Recruitment Needs
321.2 Publicizing Job Opportunities
321.3 Veterans’ Preference for Eligible Applicants
321.4 Register Preference Factors
321.5 Register Maintenance
322 Special Employment Programs (Employment of Individuals With Disabilities)
330 Examinations
331 Purpose of Examinations
332 Conducting Examinations
332.1 General
332.2 Entrance and Inservice Examinations
332.3 Inservice Examinations
332.4 Examination Locations
333 Veterans’ Preference
334 Establishing Hiring Lists
334.1 Applicants
334.2 Definition of Hiring List
340 Suitability, Selection, and Appointment
341 Positions Restricted to Preference Eligibles
342 Preemployment Suitability Determinations
343 Applicants Separated for Cause
344 Hiring Worksheets
344.1 When to Issue Hiring Lists
344.2 Interviewing Applicants
344.3 Appointing Official Responsibilities
344.4 Rule of Three
344.5 Nonselection of a Veterans’ Preference Eligible
345 Auditing Hiring Lists
346 Conditional Offer of Appointment
347 Former Postal or Federal Employees
348 Dual Employment
348.1 Dual Employment Within the Postal Service
348.2 Between Postal Service and Other Federal Agencies
348.3 Between Postal Service and Private Industry
349 Official Personnel Folder
349.1 Purpose
349.2 Contents
349.3 Electronic Official Personnel Folder System
350 Assignment, Reassignment, and Promotion
351 Introduction
351.1 Purpose and Scope
351.2 Positions Not to Be Filled on a Permanent Basis
351.3 Qualification and Eligibility Requirements
351.4 Equal Opportunity
351.5 General Promotion Policies
351.6 Mutual Exchanges
352 Selection for Bargaining Positions
353 Selection for Nonbargaining Positions
353.1 Promotion
353.2 Reassignment
353.3 Temporary Assignment
353.4 Realignment or Reevaluation
354 Assignment of Unassigned Employees
354.1 Policy
354.2 Assignment of Non-bargaining Unit Employees Due to a Potential or Actual Reduction in Force
355 Light Duty Assignments
355.1 Voluntary Requests
360 Other Personnel Actions
361 General Considerations
362 Change to Lower Level
362.1 Purpose and Authority
362.2 When Change to Lower Level May Be Made
362.3 Restrictions on Change to Lower Level
363 Conversions
363.1 Definition
363.2 Competitive and Noncompetitive Authority
363.3 Restrictions on Conversion to Career Appointment
364 Changes in Duty Status
365 Separation
365.1 Administrative Considerations
365.2 Separations - Voluntary
365.3 Separations - Involuntary
370 Performance Evaluation
371 Introduction
372 Sound Supervision
373 Performance Evaluation Systems
373.1 Formal Evaluation
373.2 Informal Evaluation
374 Discussing Performance With Employees
375 Outstanding and Unsatisfactory Performance
375.1 Outstanding Performance
375.2 Unsatisfactory Performance
376 Performance Evaluation During Probation
380 Postal Career Executive Service
381 Purpose
382 Equal Opportunity
383 Positions in the PCES
383.1 Officer Positions
383.2 Other Executive Positions
384 Filling PCES Vacancies
384.1 PCES II Vacancies
384.2 PCES I Vacancies
