This release of USAJOBS was mainly focused on back-end changes not visible to the user. Specifically, we have updated the SIF, our API for accepting job announcements. We've also been working on our upcoming move to a new authentication system.
We made the following changes:
The list of duties that can be sent increased from 10 to 20 entries and each entry can now be 250 characters in length.
The list of Conditions of Employment has increased from 10 to 20 entries and each entry can be up to 250 characters long.
Now to link one announcement to another, for example, an announcement open to the public to an announcement open only to Federal employees, your TAS can provide a control number rather than the URL for that announcement.
On the back-end we are now following the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard for representation of dates and times. Thus this field now accepts only military time in the Eastern time zone. Users will continue to see the timezone displayed, as it has been, in the hour format.
The telework field has been added and currently accepts a value of Y or N.
The job summary field length is now 500 characters.
We've changed the name to more accurate reflect the group that these jobs are targeting. In addition, we've expanded the scope of the hiring path to include not only jobs offered upon returning to the U.S., but also jobs offered overseas. The Help Center hiring path page has been updated to reflect this change and communicate it to job seekers.