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| | 440-1.htm - Employee Training and Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The selection of employees for training is made without regard to political preference, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, age, disability, or sexual preference, and with proper regard for their privacy and constitutional rights as provided by merit system principles set forth in 5 U.S.C. 2301(b)(2) (1996). |
 | | A full range of options may be used to meet mission-related organizational and employee development needs, such as classroom training, on-the-job training, technology-based training, distance learning, self-development activities, coaching, mentoring, career development counseling, details, rotational assignments, cross training, and developmental activities at retreats and conferences. |
 | | Develop unavailable skills - to acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for fields of work that are unique to the Federal Government; or to meet existing Government staffing needs in occupations for which the labor market cannot produce a sufficient number of trained candidates. |
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