Dear Bureaupat,
What tenure group does the Senior Executive Service (SES) fall into? Is it tenure
group "0" for the duration of their appointments?
Dear SESer,
Understanding your
tenure status is absolutely critical. Most feds just glance over their SF-50 personnel form and walk
blindly into their federal career, only to run into pay, benefits and retention
problems down the road.
To shed some
needed light, the SF-50 is a permanent record in your Official Personnel Folder
(OPF). It is the required form of notification for accessions, conversions, and
separations, and for corrections and cancellations of those actions. The form
is also used to document and report all personnel actions except mass transfer
and mass change actions, which may be reported by a listing of the employees
impacted. Got that? Good.
The area on the form related to your question is
block 24. Block 24
identifies the nature of your appointment. This information is used to
determine your rights during a reduction in force and retention during your first
year if you are on probationary period. Employees in the Senior Executive
Service (SES) are coded "0," and retain the "0"
designation as long as they are an SES.
A word of caution for the new SES on the Probationary Period
The
probationary period is really the final and most important step in becoming a
career SES. It affords the supervisor an opportunity to evaluate your performance
and conduct on the job, and to remove you from the SES if they see fit. So be on your best behavior!
Yours in Gov,
Bureaupat
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