Hiring/Retention
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The House Veterans Affairs Committee also signed off on a clear oversight process for VA's electronic health record modernization project, plus several other pieces of new legislation.
May 08, 2018 -
The Air Force 1st Special Operations Wing is favoring group training over computer-based classes.
May 07, 2018 -
While some feds genuinely appreciate the efforts during Public Service Recognition Week, many said the efforts seem insincere.
May 07, 2018 -
New Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon detailed his vision for OPM and its role in modernizing 40-year-old statutes that govern how agencies recruit, retain, compensate and manage federal employees.
April 30, 2018 -
Public Service Recognition Week kicks off on May 6 and we want to take the temperature of the federal workforce.
April 27, 2018 -
Frustrated by collegiate recruiting, the FBI experiments with getting high school students involved via summer internships.
April 27, 2018 -
The 150-member Republican Study Committee has listed its budget priorities for 2019, calling for eliminating all automatic pay raises for federal workers, and increasing their contributions to their own retirement. The conservative group's also wants to make it easier for federal employees to be fired.
April 27, 2018 -
The Defense Department's review of its current personnel authorities is late, but House lawmakers say they're still some recruitment and retention challenges they want to tackle in next year's authorization act.
April 25, 2018 -
The director of the Office of Personnel Management said he wants to restore the importance of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council. Jeff Pon has asked agency and department heads to put very senior level representatives on the council that strategizes human resource policy for government employees.
April 24, 2018 -
While there was a lot of talk about reform, it may take longer than some expected to overhaul the military personnel system.
April 23, 2018 -
The Air Force is taking into consideration new recommendations from the RAND Corporation.
April 23, 2018 -
Military officers needs explicit permission from Congress to transition from part-time reservist to full-time active duty, but Air Force secretary Heather Wilson said that hinders retention.
April 23, 2018 -
What are the keys to getting a federal job? Find out when Dr. Lisa Matthews. founder and president of Top Choice Resumes, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access.
April 20, 2018 -
NASA Chief Human Capital Officer Bob Gibbs said employee engagement starts with a plan, but really needs to happen organically across the agency.
April 19, 2018 -
The Veterans Affairs Department says it's also eliminated 235 expired directives and 85 percent of outdated manuals in effort to cut red tape.
April 16, 2018