What is priority consideration?
Priority consideration means that some candidates must be considered before others because of something having happen to them in the past. Examples are: candidates who were discriminated against and did not receive full and fair consideration for a position; employees placed in a lower graded position through no fault of their own (classification downgrade, etc.); candidates affected by reduction-in-force; or candidates who previously received improper consideration due to administrative error, etc. Priority consideration does not always mean that a candidate must be selected for the job.
