Hiring/Retention
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Agencies are reengineering their recruitment, hiring and retention strategies to find, nab and keep a broad spectrum of STEM-smart employees. Download this executive briefing to get a peek at efforts underway at DHA, HHS, Justice, NSF, Space Force, State and VA.
December 13, 2022 -
Environmental Protection Agency employees, implementing major climate and green government legislation championed by the Biden administration, are calling for higher wages and more opportunities for promotions.
December 09, 2022 -
The Veterans Affairs Department is on a hiring spree for IT talent, and recruiting private-sector employees hit by industry-wide layoffs to join its ranks.
December 09, 2022 -
The Social Security Administration wants to hire 4,000 new employees and drastically reduce processing times during 2023, but agency officials say they can't get there without full-year funding from Congress.
December 09, 2022 -
Congress wants intelligence agencies to work toward hiring most employees within six months.
December 08, 2022 -
The National Science Foundation and the American Federation of Government Employees signed a four-year collective bargaining agreement that will add more telework, create a student loan repayment program, expand the “after hours” program and more.
December 06, 2022 -
About one in four federal employees are veterans, spouses of veterans, or reservists. The Interagency Veterans Advisory Council, with 125 agencies participating, tracks veteran federal employee issues. Its most recent annual report had a couple of recommendations.
December 05, 2022 -
Congress has been on a spending spree for three years: appropriations, the American Rescue Plan, the CHIPS Act, the infrastructure bill, the inflation bill. It all means federal agencies have to hire somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people.
December 02, 2022 -
Customs and Border Protection has a diversity goal. The agency wants 30% of its workforce to be women by 2030.
December 01, 2022 -
The spy agency is facing a worrying trend of contracting officers and HR specialists leaving for greener, telework pastures.
December 01, 2022 -
The Office of Personnel Management said while agencies still need to make progress to close critical skills gaps, there are resources and incentives already available to help them along the way.
November 29, 2022 -
Recruiting challenges for the Army and Air Force mean they have trouble meeting end-strength goals. But what about the Coast Guard? It has also been having trouble meeting yearly goals.
November 29, 2022 -
The new hire is part of a push to increase mental health resources and provide additional support to CIA officers.
November 29, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The military’s Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories can now pay you $226,000 per year. The National Science Foundation experiments with more working from home. And the cost of sending junk mail is going up.
November 29, 2022 -
The Veterans Health Administration, eager to hire more in-demand health care workers, is accelerating the process of bringing prospective hires onboard.
November 23, 2022