Hiring/Retention
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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 -
Reggie Wells, Chief Human Capital Officer of the Social Security Administration, discussed the diversity of the agency's workforce and how managers cultivated it.
April 22, 2016 -
More than 50 members of the House cosigned a letter asking President Obama to make the federal hiring process more accessible to Americans with criminal histories.
April 22, 2016 -
The DATA Act will usher in a new way of reporting federal spending information, but information systems officials say it's also time to revisit job descriptions for data experts.
April 21, 2016 -
Veterans and agency hiring managers have mixed thoughts on the success of the veterans preference program. But there is some consensus that current regulations are too confusing and complex for both veterans and agencies.
April 21, 2016 -
The polarization that infects our political system also infects views of the civil service. To hear some people tell it, civil servants are either saints who can do no wrong, or they are leeches sucking the blood out of America.
April 21, 2016