Hiring/Retention
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After a dip in the 2020 governmentwide attrition rate, employees voluntarily left the federal workforce in 2021 at an average rate of 6.1%, often to retire or find a new job.
August 03, 2022 -
With Baby Boomers leaving the workforce (one in four federal employees indicated they had plans to retire within five years in 2019), the race to find replacements, particularly for vital IT roles, is clearly on.
August 03, 2022 -
The Chief Information Officer at GSA is seemingly in unrestrained hiring mode. Meanwhile, federal employees under 30 are resigning at higher rates than the overall average.
August 03, 2022 -
The Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing $850 billion for national security.
August 02, 2022 -
Mental health care is not an automatic disqualifier for national security clearances, and the way the Intelligence Community evaluates answers to mental health questions might be undergoing some revision.
August 02, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: More than 50 victims handed over millions of dollars to scammers posing as feds. A new bill would try to make it easier to fire federal employees.
August 01, 2022 -
Republican lawmakers are once again making a push that would allow the government to fire bureaucrats more easily.
July 29, 2022 -
Every organization talks about innovating and hiring innovators, but how to you find such people? Sabra Horne, an entrepreneur-in-residence at BMNT and former CISA innovation hub chief joined the Federal Drive to give her view.
July 29, 2022 -
At least one agency has a severe staffing shortage in that particular occupational code. Namely, the Veterans Health Administration. The workplace can turn bad pretty fast. Especially if that workplace is a hospital.
July 28, 2022 -
The budget reconciliation package announced Wednesday night by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) would give the IRS $80 billion over the next 10 years, with a focus on tax enforcement.
July 28, 2022 -
All of the military services are having issues recruiting enough people to fill their ranks.
July 27, 2022 -
The Army is reevaluating its end strength numbers because recruitment is so challenging.
July 26, 2022 -
CISA is about to get its own procurement authority but could they grow too large too fast? Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, now the chief operating officer of Intellibridge talked with Tom Temin on the Federal Drive.
July 26, 2022 -
Agencies are thinking about ways to boost employee engagement in a hybrid workforce, with more interactions and shorter learning sessions.
July 25, 2022 -
Naval Air Station Oceana hosted a graduation ceremony for eight interns who were part of Project SEARCH, a program connecting high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to internships and on-the-job training.
July 22, 2022