Hiring/Retention
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A new report warns that agencies need to focus on employee retention as Congress threatens pay and hiring freezes. Agency leaders and line managers must work together to maintain their workforces.
January 18, 2011 -
GovInfoSecurity reports on a new application for smartphones designed to recruit cybersecurity professionals.
January 14, 2011 -
GovInfoSecurity reports that IT jobs hit 4 million in the past four quarters.
January 14, 2011 -
Federal employee and management groups sent a letter to President Obama urging him to reject proposals to cut workforce benefits made by the Deficit Commission. The letter comes on the heels of a new bill to codify many of the commission\'s recommendations.
January 13, 2011 -
NPR and TechAmerica report on the volunteer organization for cyber defense in Estonia.
January 11, 2011 -
The Partnership for Public Service\'s Tim McManus explains how the new guidance from OPM will affect agency hiring.
January 07, 2011 -
The Office of Personnel Management issued guidance on the new internship and hiring programs. Last month President Obama had issued an executive order to scrap the controversial Federal Career Intern Program.
January 07, 2011 -
Changes to the The National Institute of Standards and Technology\'s hiring protocol will update its 13-year-old Alternative Personnel Management System. The new rules will let NIST have direct-hire authority to expedite hiring for critical functions.
January 05, 2011 -
President Obama has signed an executive order that replaces the controversial Federal Career Intern Program with three consolidated \'pathways.\' Administration officials say the old hiring system put agencies at a competitive disadvantage with private sector employers.
December 27, 2010 -
OPM\'s Nancy Kichak explains how the cyber internship works.
December 27, 2010 -
The Post reports that a draft executive order will kill the 10-year-old FCIP in March.
December 27, 2010 -
Jon Lau, Director of the Center for Cybersecurity for UMBC Training Centers, told Federal News Radio\'s Tom Temin how the program interacts with industry and government.
December 22, 2010 -
Bryan Klopack, director of research at the Government Business Council, discussed a recent survey of federal managers by Government Executive on the impact of the impending pay freeze.
December 16, 2010 -
The Partnership for Public Service\'s Tim McManus explained the findings of a report on best practices for federal hiring.
December 10, 2010 -
The biggest issue facing chief information officers in 2011 is hiring. A new Robert Half Technology survey found CIOs are concerned that they will have a hard time finding skilled information security professionals to fill…
December 09, 2010