This list of products and deadlines should be completed by the agency review teams in order to effectively achieve their mission.
This chart, divided into sections for all clearance candidates and candidates requiring additional scrutiny, details the steps comprising an FBI background check.
Displayed in this chart is the percentage of priority Senate-confirmed positions requiring presidential appointments that were filled during the course of the Obama Administration’s first year.
This Partnership document contains guidelines for key considerations in planning for a Cabinet orientation in the first months of an administration.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of operations.
This chart provides timing and comments for each of the steps transition teams must take in order to properly identify and vet potential candidates for Cabinet-level positions.
This chart divides the more than 4,000 federal positions requiring presidential appointment into four categories: presidential appointment requiring Senate confirmation, presidential appointment without Senate confirmation, non-career senior executive service (above GS-15 level), confidential or policy-determining positions at or below GS-15 level, and non-competitive positions by statute at or below GS-15 level.
Every four years, just after the presidential election, the United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, commonly known as the Plum Book, is published, alternately, by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
This publication contains data (as of June 30, 2012) on over 8,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment (e.g., positions such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors and aides who report to these officials). The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials.
A list of nominees that received confirmation hearings before Inauguration in the Bush and Obama administrations.
This chart notes that the vast majority of White House positions are appointed by the President and none are subject to Senate confirmation.