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Executive Order 13024

Amending Executive Order 12015, Relating to Competitive Appointments of Students Who Have Completed Approved Career-Related Work Study Programs

This executive order amends a 1977 order to expand eligibility for students who completed career-related work study programs, allowing them to be appointed to term positions (not just career or career-conditional ones) and providing a path for noncompetitive conversion from term to career or career-conditional appointments before the term expires.

Federal Register Open PDF 61 FR 58125

Key directives

  • Amend EO 12015 to allow term appointments (in addition to career/career-conditional) for students completing approved career-related work study programs
  • Allow noncompetitive conversion from term to career or career-conditional appointment before term expires

Timeline

Immediate

  • EO takes effect upon signing; term appointment eligibility expanded

Near term (90d)

  • Agencies may begin implementing broader hiring authority for student work-study participants

Long term

  • Potential expansion of federal pipeline for career-track hiring from student programs; cumulative effect on federal workforce composition

Risks & tensions

  • Vague on implementation guidance—delegates operational details to agencies/OPM without specified process
  • Noncompetitive conversion pathway could raise merit system concerns if oversight is weak, though text frames it as limited pre-expiration window
Executive Order 13024: Amending Executive Order 12015, Relating to Competitive Appointments of Students Who Have Completed Approved Career-Related Work Study Programs · Executive Orders