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Contingent Offers

Jim S. - July 11, 2021
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Hello!

As a Federal Contractor, we understand that the OFCCP provides certain guidance and guidelines for our hiring practices. Important to follow fair and consistent hiring.

Our current process: we determine our customer’s critical staffing needs, open a requisition in our ATS, post it and then screen and interview qualified candidates. (Our roles go out to many organizations as well as to the State Job Boards). We then make a contingent offer which is based upon our customer’s approval and formal contract authorization (to bring our new hire on to perform work for them).

Question: is it acceptable to have a candidate sign a contingent offer ahead of our ability to have them apply for a specific role in our ATS? What if we haven’t opened or posted a role yet, can we still make them a contingent offer and remain compliant with OFCCP guidelines?

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