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Call for Hire — Non-Competitive DC Government Hiring, and It Reaches Spouses

The District hires veterans non-competitively into time-limited Career Service appointments at grade 12 and below, through a dedicated applicant pool. It asks for DC residency, more than 180 consecutive days of service, and an honorable or general discharge — with an exception process for discharges due to discrimination. It also reaches spouses and registered domestic partners of veterans rated 30% or more disabled, and unremarried surviving spouses or partners of members killed on active duty. An application stays valid for up to a year.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

The District hires veterans non-competitively into time-limited Career Service appointments at grade 12 and below, through a dedicated applicant pool. It asks for DC residency, more than 180 consecutive days of service, and an honorable or general discharge — with an exception process for discharges due to discrimination. It also reaches spouses and registered domestic partners of veterans rated 30% or more disabled, and unremarried surviving spouses or partners of members killed on active duty. An application stays valid for up to a year.

What it's worth: Non-competitive appointment into Career Service posts at grade 12 and below

  • NON-COMPETITIVE means you are appointed from a dedicated pool rather than having to beat the open field. That is stronger than a points preference.
  • The appointments are time-limited Career Service posts at grades 12 and below. After that you may compete for permanent positions, and the candidate pool for those is sometimes limited to programme participants — which is itself an advantage.
  • The veteran route asks for DC residency, more than 180 CONSECUTIVE days of service, and an honorable or general discharge.
  • There is an exception process for discharges due to discrimination. A veteran discharged on those grounds should ask rather than assume they are excluded.
  • The SPOUSE route requires the veteran spouse to be rated 30% or more disabled by the VA. Registered domestic partners are included.
  • Unremarried surviving spouses and partners of members killed on active duty qualify in their own right.
  • An application stays valid for up to ONE YEAR, so it is worth filing before you have a specific post in mind.
  • There is no disability requirement on the veteran's own route.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are the veteran, or a spouse or surviving spouse.
  • The discharge was honorable or general.
  • You live in the District.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Apply to the applicant pool rather than to a specific vacancy. The application is valid for up to a year and the pool is how appointments are made.
  2. 2Check the 180 CONSECUTIVE days — it is consecutive service, not cumulative.
  3. 3If you were discharged because of discrimination, ask about the exception process rather than ruling yourself out.
  4. 4Spouses and registered domestic partners: the test is the veteran being rated 30% or more. Apply in your own right.
  5. 5Unremarried surviving spouses and partners of members killed on active duty should apply too — that is a separate route.
  6. 6Once appointed, ask whether the permanent-position pool is limited to programme participants. Where it is, the time-limited post is a route in rather than a dead end.
Form
Call for Hire application to DCHR
File with
DC Department of Human Resources
Documents you will need
dd214
Annual
Claimed once a year.

Sources

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