Hiring/Retention
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The agency earlier this year outlined a strategy to Congress to address these longstanding diversity and inclusion challenges, but an executive order from President Donald Trump put these plans on hold.
November 12, 2020 -
The Army is using machine learning to build a retention prediction model, which determines the likelihood of personnel staying in the service.
November 11, 2020 -
Mike Sydla, the division director for Information Management Resources at Naval Sea Systems Command’s Industrial Operations, said the coronavirus pandemic helped accelerate some parts of the IT modernization journey.
November 05, 2020 -
Don Kettl, a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, offered his take on the most important administrative and governance topics ahead.
November 05, 2020 -
Federal unions, many good government groups and much of the media have attacked President Trump's proposal to make it easy to fire hundreds --if not thousands--of career feds now protected by civil service rules.
November 05, 2020 -
The debate over the Trump administration's order to create a new civil service Schedule F - most of it has focused on the effects on career employees. But what about the public?
November 04, 2020 -
Just how big is the federal government? If you count contractors and grantees, it ranges from 9 million people to more than 11 million.
November 03, 2020 -
To implement the president's recent federal hiring executive order, agencies will need a strategy, resources and, in some cases, specialized expertise to help them test out new skills-based assessments and collect and measure data to make sure they're working.
November 02, 2020 -
The Defense Department's data strategy released just a few weeks ago says improving data management will help it fight and win wars.
October 30, 2020 -
Several agencies say they've reached a point where they're recruiting from a broad pool of geographically dispersed talent for 100% telework positions, and some envision a scenario where those arrangements are permanent.
October 29, 2020 -
Even with coronavirus completely upending the recruiting process, the Army still made the most of its adjusted 2020 recruiting goals and will be able to reach its required end strength. However, future years may have a tough road ahead.
October 29, 2020 -
Building off lessons learned from programs to retrain federal employees for cybersecurity and data science jobs, the Chief Financial Officers Council is developing a strategic workforce plan for the financial management workforce.
October 29, 2020 -
Lt. Gen. John Morrison Jr., the deputy chief of staff, G-6, said his office reached initial operating capability in the first two months since the secretary split the CIO and G6.
October 28, 2020 -
Former Chief Human Capital Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, Jeff Neal provides some background on the career civil service and why the recent Schedule F executive order undermines it.
October 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management is out with preliminary guidance on the president's recent executive order.
October 26, 2020