Even though some veterans and military are qualified to do certain jobs at various different agencies, there are some positions that they are not qualified to do due to a lack of education and/or experience.
When a highly qualified civilian person with an educational and/or experience background can perform the federal job, USAJobs automatically gives the applicant an "Eligible - Not Referred" status because they were never part of the military.
This petition would repeal the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) policy of giving non-qualified veterans/military applicants first dibs at federal jobs and are required to be in the hiring pool based with other civilians based off of their qualification levels.