Human Resources Management

The 0201 specialties are recruitment and placement, position classification, compensation, employee and labor relations, benefits, workforce planning and HR information systems. Most announcements name one or more of them in the title or the duties section, and the specialized-experience statement is written around them.

Recent listings have included “Human Resources Specialist” and supervisory and lead versions of the same title, military HR specialist roles at Army and Air National Guard units, recruitment-and-placement positions filled under direct hire authority, and non-appropriated fund (NAF) HR jobs at military installations, which use NF pay bands rather than GS grades. Employers have ranged from the Army’s civilian HR agency and the Navy’s personnel bureau to the U.S. Attorneys’ offices and the Interior Department.

Applying tip: an HR specialist resume gets read by HR specialists. Use the specialty names the announcement uses, say which HR systems and regulations you have worked with, and show the scale of the workforce you supported. The federal resume guide explains how much detail reviewers expect.