The USA Staffing online training modules are designed to provide your users "just in time" training in small, concentrated modules for each area of the system. Self-paced training modules are accessible for users at their convenience.
Follow the instructions in the USA Staffing Online Training Registration Instructions.
To access the Training site, please select the following link: USA Staffing Online Training Portal.
The following USA Staffing specific modules are available on the USA Staffing Online Training platform:
Request: The Request area is the starting point for the staffing process in USA Staffing. Information entered here forms the basis for the recruitment case file to include: vacancy, assessment, announcement, referral certificates, and new hire records. This course provides step-by-step guidance on creating, reviewing, and approving a Request, ensuring all required details are accurate and complete before moving forward in the hiring process.
Classification: The Classification section in USA Staffing allows users to create and edit Position Descriptions (PDs) and manage the PD library. This includes collaborating with Hiring Managers to review and finalize PDs before they are made available for use in staffing actions. This course covers PD creation, editing, library management, and the review/approval process.
Vacancy: The Vacancy area is where users create, review, and manage vacancies in USA Staffing. This course explains how to enter vacancy details, link to the appropriate Request, and ensure all necessary information is in place for subsequent steps in the hiring process.
Assessment: The Assessment area in USA Staffing is used to develop tools for evaluating and scoring applicants. This course covers the basics of creating and testing assessments, including selecting question types, setting scoring criteria, and ensuring the assessment aligns with job requirements.
Announcement: The Announcement area allows users to create, edit, and post job announcements that will appear on USAJOBS. This course details how to manage announcement content and formatting, ensuring accuracy and compliance with agency and OPM requirements, and how to publish the announcement for applicants.
Applicant: This section focuses on the applicant’s interaction with USA Staffing. The course explains how applicants apply to job announcements, how applications are received in the system, and how users can view and manage applicant data.
Referral: The Referral area is where users create and manage lists of applicants who meet the qualifications for a position. This course covers reviewing applicant qualifications, generating referral certificates, and sending those certificates to hiring managers for consideration.
New Hire: The New Hire area in USA Staffing supports the onboarding process for selected candidates. This course explains how to create new hire records, assign onboarding tasks and workflows, send job offers, upload and manage documents, accept required forms, and transmit files to the eOPF system.
The following training courses are also available on the USA Staffing Online Training platform:
USA Hire Training: This course equips users with the knowledge and tools to integrate USA Hire online assessments into job announcements created in USA Staffing, ensuring proper setup, administration, and use of assessment results in the hiring process.
USA Hire Interview Training: This course provides instruction on managing user accounts, creating and maintaining competency models, and conducting and rating live virtual interviews in the USA Hire Interview platform.
Power BI Report Consumer Training: This course introduces Power BI and its role in meeting USA Staffing reporting needs. Participants will learn how to access and navigate the Power BI Service, work with paginated and interactive reports, export data, and set up report subscriptions. The training explains key concepts, basic functionality, and the advantages of Power BI’s cloud-based platform which offers faster performance, improved data availability, and enhanced interactivity.
Power BI Author Training: These course provides foundational instruction in Power BI concepts, architecture, and use. Participants will learn how to build reports, apply visualizations, and work with data to create effective and interactive dashboards.
- Module 1 – Power BI Authoring: Concepts and Architecture: Understand the core concepts and structure of Power BI to navigate the platform effectively, avoid common pitfalls, and create better, more shareable reports.
- Module 2 – Power BI Authoring: Paginated Report Editor Basics: Quickly create and customize paginated reports in the Power BI Service Report Builder, enabling you to adjust without needing advanced tools or skills.
- Module 3 – Power BI Authoring: Report Builder Basics: Gain the skills to design and customize more complex paginated reports, improving your ability to meet advanced reporting requirements.
- Module 4 – Power BI Authoring: Report Builder Advanced – Parameters: Learn how to create custom parameters using Power BI Report Builder.
- Module 5 – Power BI Authoring: Power BI Desktop Basics & Standalone Semantic Models: Build essential skills with Power BI Desktop and learn how to leverage standalone semantic models and report templates to create effective, data-driven reports.
- Module 6 – Power BI Authoring: Building Custom Report Dataflows in Power BI: Learn how to use Power BI dataflows to build and manage reusable, custom data models that support tailored custom reports, extending the skills introduced in earlier modules to meet more advanced, agency-specific reporting needs.