Hiring/Retention
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In theory, a Biden administration could, for its own purposes, use the Trump executive order.
October 26, 2020 -
Reaction over the president's new executive order on the creation of a new Schedule F for certain policy-making positions ranges from "forget it!" to "finally!"
October 26, 2020 -
A new executive order from President Donald Trump will reclassify certain current and future positions in the career civil service as a new political class known as "Schedule F."
October 22, 2020 -
Women and minority service members are being particularly impacted by the pandemic.
October 22, 2020 -
Census Bureau officials have compressed the 2020 deadline to deliver apportionment data to Congress and the president by the end of the year, but haven’t committed to meeting that deadline if the accuracy of the data isn’t sufficient.
October 21, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Army is embedding nutritionists, physical fitness experts and coaches into active duty brigades in hopes of increasing performance and cutting down on injuries.
October 20, 2020 -
After several successful runs at customer experience pilots in recent years, the Department of Veterans will soon publish a CX best practices guide for other agencies..
October 19, 2020 -
The purpose is to change the connotation around soldiers who do not report to duty and to actively look for them.
October 16, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Partnership for Public Service is sounding alarm bells over the state of the federal workforce ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
October 15, 2020 -
The Army is changing the way it trains, deploys and modernizes to focus on its people.
October 14, 2020 -
A major reason for hitting 2020 goals, however, was less attrition and more personnel staying with the service.
October 13, 2020 -
The Defense Department finalized its first-ever data strategy focused on eight guiding principles and seven goals to bring some standardization and governance to how the services and agencies manage information.
October 09, 2020 -
Mainframes are central to many critical federal services, but what happens when the people who know how to maintain them keep retiring? And what if the next cohort of coders never learned the language in school?
October 08, 2020 -
Troops of the future will work hand-in-hand with technology, requiring digital savvy.
October 06, 2020 -
A new draft policy from the Office of Personnel Management reveals what jobs are common in the federal workforce and the qualifications currently needed to hold those positions.
October 05, 2020