Hiring/Retention

  • Host Derrick Dortch is joined by Linda Rix, Co-CEO of Avue Technologies. September 16, 2011(Encore presentation September 30, 2011)

    September 16, 2011
  • The law aims to ensure the Patent and Trademark Office has the money it needs to reduce a large backlog of unreviewed patent applications. PTO plans to hire as many as 2,000 new patent application examiners.

    September 16, 2011
  • Tim McManus, vice president of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, how agencies can use the program to hand-pick new employees.

    September 01, 2011
  • The Office of Personnel Management said shared registers will make it easier and quicker for agencies to fill openings for entry-level budget analysts and IT specialists. OPM will send requesting agencies a list of the \"best qualified\" candidates. Agencies then will have 30 days to review the applications.

    September 01, 2011
  • The federal government needs to hire 30,000 cybersecurity professionals. But does anybody out there want the jobs? That\'s what the Government Accountability Office is trying to find out

    September 01, 2011
  • Military widows and spouses of disabled veterans will be able to take all the time they need to apply for federal jobs under a special hiring exemption. The current two-year limit on spouses\' noncompetitive hiring authority expires at the end of September.

    August 31, 2011
  • A new Office of Personnel Management report showed that agency use of recruitment, relocation and retention incentives rose 22 percent in 2009, the Obama administration\'s first year. That\'s a slower rate of growth than in previous years. But it indicates that the government still relies on one-time payments to lure or keep nurses, engineers and others with needed skills.

    August 30, 2011
  • Tim McManus, vice president for Education and Outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, explains how the new Pathways Programs may try to boost that 7 percent job rate for federal interns.

    August 19, 2011
  • Thanks to the pay freeze and an increasingly hostile Congress, many federal and postal workers said they\'d retire in a heartbeat if Uncle Sam would make them an offer, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey reports. So what are the odds...

    August 17, 2011
  • Dickie George, the technical director of the Information Assurance Directorate at the National Security Agency, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the agency\'s robust hiring efforts, including in the cyber realm.

    August 15, 2011
  • Jeff Neal is the former Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security.

    August 10, 2011
  • Diane Cochran has worked in the Departments of the Navy, Air Force, Energy, and the Office of Personnel Management, at a variety of locations in the continental United States and abroad. She shares what it\'s like to make the transition to working and living in D.C.

    August 08, 2011
  • President Barack Obama plans to unveil a $120 million package of new tax incentives for businesses that hire U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

    August 05, 2011
  • The Office of Personnel Management\'s proposed regulations would make it easier for agencies to recruit and train students and recent graduates without going through the competitive hiring process.

    August 04, 2011