Hiring/Retention
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is more than halfway to meeting its hiring goal for health care workers this fiscal year, and ahead of schedule to achieve its workforce goals this fall.
January 26, 2023 -
Despite direct investments into remote work, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure, the federal government still faces challenges in recruiting and retaining a qualified IT workforce.
January 25, 2023 -
Lawmakers reintroduced the Social Security Fairness Act, aiming to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, as well as the Chance to Compete Act, seeking to revamp the federal hiring process.
January 24, 2023 -
New guidance from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget details how agencies can expand paid internship opportunities.
January 20, 2023 -
The Agriculture Department has restored staffing levels after attrition following 2019 research facility relocations, but the new workforce has overall less job experience and is less racially diverse.
January 19, 2023 -
The IRS, after getting $80 billion this summer to rebuild its workforce and modernize its legacy IT, is coming up with a plan to make the most of this funding over nearly a decade.
January 17, 2023 -
The federal government is looking at a sector-wide shakeup across tech companies as an opportunity to bring a new generation of IT talent into public service.
January 17, 2023 -
By learning how to properly leverage their HR data, federal agencies can begin to make real progress on hiring, retention and DEIA goals, setting themselves up for the workforce of the future.
January 13, 2023 -
Agencies need to be more proactive about recruiting and retaining new talent. To do that, they need to update their processes to find potential candidates, keep them engaged, streamline the hiring process, and build a recruitment strategy that maximizes ROI.
January 12, 2023 -
The IRS, for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, will be in a better position to improve its performance than in the years prior, according to an agency watchdog.
January 11, 2023 -
A provision in the 2023 NDAA will establish a locality pay equivalent for hundreds of civilian federal employees working under the Domestic Employees Teleworking Overseas (DETO) program.
January 09, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management added tools, training opportunities for its internal staff, in an effort to better engage a hybrid workforce.
January 06, 2023 -
The Veterans Benefits Administration is using new PACT Act authorities and funding to hire an additional 1,900 employees in the first half of fiscal 2023.
January 02, 2023 -
DoD pursues multiple paths to hire a new cybersecurity workforce including scholarships and a reserve program.
December 30, 2022 -
The National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with its union to extend telework eligibility to all permanent agency employees.
December 29, 2022