Education Alternatives

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Education Alternatives

The education requirements identified in this section are high school diploma and baccalaureate

degree. Persons who do not possess the formal educational requirements specified should not be

automatically eliminated where other factors provide sufficient assurance of their abilities to fulfill the

duties of a specific position. These factors should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and approved

and documented.

High School Alternatives:

General Educational Development (GED) diploma or completed test.

Certificate of Completion from a post-secondary technical institution.

Completion of technical training provided by the US Armed Forces.

College Alternatives:

Professional engineer license.

Completion of technical portions of a baccalaureate program, with the overall completion of 80

semester credit hours, as determined by a written transcript.

Related experience substituted for education at the rate of six semester credit hours for each year of

experience up to a maximum of 80 credits.

Experience Alternatives

Persons who do not possess the experience requirements specified should not be automatically

eliminated where other factors provide sufficient assurance of their abilities to fulfill the duties of a

specific position. These factors should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and approved and

documented in accordance with this procedure.

General:

In those cases where an individual does not meet the literal experience required for a position, and no

other basis for an experience alternative is available, consideration may be given to the collective

experience of the operating organization in lieu of the individual meeting the required experience.

Individuals may be assigned to positions providing the overall operating organization is considered

balanced and strong. In such cases, management approval of this approach (documented in a

memorandum) is required.

Substitution of Course Work and Training:

Where course work is related to job assignments, post-secondary education may be substituted.

Formal education may not be substituted for more than 50% of the experience requirements unless

otherwise specified herein.

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