§3317 Competitive service; certification using numerical ratings

Summary

The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or an agency head who has been given that authority, must give enough top names from the proper list of eligible candidates. They must send a list of those names to a hiring official who asks for one when filling a job in the competitive service. Unless the Director’s rules say something different, the list must include at least three names. If a hiring official has looked at and passed over a preference eligible person three times, the Director or agency head may stop sending that person’s name. The person must get a notice before that happens. The Director must make rules to run this process, including ways to pick which eligibles will be considered for each vacancy; those ways can include cut-off scores. "Director" means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.