Hiring/Retention
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Pundits say every action that comes out of Capitol Hill this year — bills, nominations or hearings — has ties to the 2016 elections.
January 06, 2016 -
Reggie Wells, the Social Security Administration’s chief human capital officer and deputy commissioner of the Office of Human Resources, said the agency is seeing positive results after expanding its leadership development program to employees at the GS-9 level.
January 06, 2016 -
The FBI will hire more than 230 National Instant Criminal Background Check System examiners and other specialists, nearly double its existing workforce, to help process mandatory background checks. The agency is also partnering with the U.S. Digital Service to overhaul the NICS.
January 05, 2016 -
Talent acquisition manager Mike Bruni will discuss job trends in the federal government, the kinds of workers that agencies need, and how to land a job in what is a competitive and challenging federal market. January 1, 2016
January 04, 2016 -
Randy Silvey, president of Silverlight Financial, makes the case for more training that happens earlier in a federal employee’s career and then more intensified training as the employee gets closer to retirement age.
January 04, 2016 -
Here’s another in our series on longtime feds who are retiring soon. Everybody’s got a different story. Some of them are fascinating, some funny, some kind of sad. Or a combination of all three - which, maybe, is life …
December 31, 2015 -
In Wednesday's federal headlines, the White House released a cyber deterrence policy after repeated calls from Congress to do so.
December 30, 2015 -
I don't understand the repeated concern about harvesting social media for clues to possible security breaches. The whole social media scene resembles nothing so much as a platform for self-revelation.
December 29, 2015 -
The Defense Department has grown its acquisition work force by 26,000 over the last few years. But it's not enough, according to the Government Accountability Office. Auditors found six of the 13 acquisition career fields didn't meet growth goals. Tim DiNapoli, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management at GAO, spoke with Federal News Radio's Eric White about the DOD's workforce issues on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 22, 2015 -
A small change in settlement authorities is making a big difference for the federal equal employment opportunity complainant process.
December 21, 2015 -
Josh Plaskoff, director of learning and technology service development for HighPoint Global, argues that agencies need to transition their efforts to helping federal employees be more customer service focused as a way to improve employee morale and engagement.
December 21, 2015 -
Ann Dunkin, the EPA chief information officer, said her office hasn’t been updated since 1999 and was in a severe need of a new approach to meet internal and external customer needs.
December 18, 2015 -
Leaders within the federal manager community offered a mixed bag of reactions to President Obama's new executive order on Service Executive Service reform. Higher performance bonuses largely went over well, but others had more questions over the timeline and implementation of the initiatives.
December 17, 2015 -
The National Security Agency is preparing for an organizational change that will prepare future leaders for global threats.
December 16, 2015 -
Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talk to retired Rear Adm. Janice Hamby, chancellor of the National Defense University, about women in leadership.
December 16, 2015