---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 362.107"
title: "5"
number: "362.107"
heading: "Conversion to the competitive service."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/362.107"
---

# §362.107. Conversion to the competitive service.

- (a) Subject to any limits on conversion imposed by the Director, and in accordance with the provisions of each Pathways Program, an agency may noncompetitively convert an eligible Pathways Participant to a term or permanent competitive service position.
- (b) A Pathways Participant who is noncompetitively converted to a competitive service term appointment may be subsequently converted noncompetitively to a permanent competitive service position.
- (c) **Noncompetitive conversion.**
  - (1) An Intern may be converted to a position within the employing agency or any other agency within the Federal Government.
  - (2) A Recent Graduate may be converted to a position within the employing agency or any other agency within the Federal Government. Conversion to position at a different agency is subject to [§ 362.305(c)](/cfr/5/362.305.md?p=c).
- (d) The provisions of the career transition assistance programs in subparts [B](/cfr/5/subpartB.md), [F](/cfr/5/subpartF.md) and G of [part 330](/cfr/5/part330.md) of this chapter do not apply to conversions made under this part.
- (e) Time spent serving as a Pathways Participant counts towards career tenure when the individual is noncompetitively converted to a permanent position in the competitive service upon completion of the Program, with or without an intervening term appointment, and without a break in service of one day.
- (f) Though Pathways Participants are eligible for noncompetitive conversion to the competitive service upon successful completion of their Program and any other applicable conversion requirements, service in a Pathways Program confers no right to further employment in either the competitive or excepted service. An agency wishing to convert a Pathways Participant must therefore execute the required actions to do so.

## Notes

### Amendments

[77 FR 28215, May 11, 2012, as amended at 89 FR 25771, Apr. 12, 2024; 90 FR 38607, Aug. 11, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: E.O. 13562, 75 FR 82585, 3 CFR, 2010 Comp., p. 291, as amended by E.O. 14217, 90 FR 10577.

### Source

Source: 77 FR 28215, May 11, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[77 FR 28215, May 11, 2012, as amended at 89 FR 25771, Apr. 12, 2024; 90 FR 38607, Aug. 11, 2025]