The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) joined President Barack Obama today in underscoring the administration's commitment to ensuring that every American worker has access to opportunity, including the 54 million people across the nation living with disabilities. To "level the playing field" for those with disabilities, OPM announced it will launch on-line training opportunities for Federal hiring officials.

"I believe strongly that the Federal government should be the model of diversity for all of America," said OPM Director John Berry. "And that America includes an amazing untapped talent pool of people with disabilities who are eager and ready to join the Federal government. We must do more than just enact inclusive policies, we must actively recruit, develop, retain and promote a workforce that is drawn from and represents the diverse faces of this nation."

The training OPM will be offering, and which will be available to Federal agencies in November, is designed to educate managers, supervisors and human resources managers on ways to use the Schedule A Hiring Authority to recruit and hire talented individuals with disabilities.

In addition to the training, OPM, in coordination with the Department of Labor (DOL), will hold a hiring fair in the spring for those with disabilities. The fair will bring together a number of Federal agencies that have immediate hiring needs and that will hire "on-the-spot."

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