How will HHS Careers impact me as a Selecting Official and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME)?
You will no longer be required to develop job analysis and crediting/rating plans or identify knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) for positions in the traditional format. You will select the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required for your position from the HHS Careers KSA library. KSAs will be in the form of questions that the applicant must answer when applying through HHS Careers. With the assistance of the HR Specialist, you will determine the importance of the KSA questions by assigning a numerical weight to specific questions. Applicants are rated and referred based on and their responses to the position-specific questions that the Selecting Official, in consultation with a Human Resources Specialist, identify as important to the job. The position-specific questions used in HHS Careers have been pre-loaded into the system, and validated by DHHS subject matter experts. This is a much simpler process than the current one.
