Hiring/Retention
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Attracting a skilled federal cyber workforce means getting applicants, agencies and hiring managers on the same page when it comes to mission.
May 18, 2016 -
The federal government has enough trouble hiring people, especially young people. It's hard to get millennials in the door, but once you do, how do you keep them? Mallory Barg Bulman, director of research at the Partnership for Public Service, shares a few ideas on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 18, 2016 -
With leadership transition looming, you might be thinking of making a leap to the private sector. Former Environmental Protection Agency attorney David Edelstein, an associate at Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how he made the switch successfully.
May 17, 2016 -
The General Services Administration picked 109 vendors for the $11.5 billion unrestricted and small business Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts.
May 17, 2016 -
Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin his group is meeting with agency HR leaders on how to export pockets of hiring excellence and export them across the government.
May 11, 2016 -
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is the latest federal agency to establish a permanent presence in Silicon Valley. Agencies are feeling the need to be closer to the innovators in order to feed off their energy, get involved in partnerships and stay on top of the cutting edge of innovation.
May 11, 2016 -
The Army is cutting more experienced soldiers to reach 450,000 active duty troops by 2018.
May 10, 2016 -
Randy Silvey, president of Silverlight Financial, highlights a new survey from his firm and Federal News Radio about just how ill-prepared federal employees are for retirement.
May 10, 2016 -
No contractor wants to hire felons to work on federal contracts. So, they use background checks as part of the hiring process. But that can get you into hot water too if the company policy ends up discriminating against people in legally protected categories. Kenneth Rosenberg, a partner at Fox Rothschild, sheds some light on this subject on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 04, 2016 -
As part of the Hiring Excellence campaign, OPM is going on the road to speak with the federal HR community in the field. The goal is to better educate HR specialists and hiring managers about the wide variety of authorities and flexibilities they already have to recruit and hire new talent.
May 03, 2016 -
The Homeland Security Department is about to roll out a new series of incentive payments to lure cyber experts from the private sector and keep them in the civil service.
May 03, 2016 -
If someone is going to be unqualified for a job for a criminal past, why should hiring entities wait until down the line and waste everybody’s time?
May 03, 2016 -
A rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management on April 29 would delay criminal history checks until after federal employers have already issued a conditional offer of employment to an applicant.
May 02, 2016 -
Beth Cobert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, wants more people to know about the hard, important work federal employees do every day.
April 29, 2016 -
If you go to a typical agency and ask HR folks what they think their role should be, you will get different answers from everyone.
April 28, 2016