Hiring/Retention
-
Some agencies will have to continue to take it on themselves to improve the personnel recruitment and hiring practices everyone professes to hate.
September 17, 2020 -
The Air Force is fully embracing telework, even after COVID goes away.
September 16, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management will allow agencies to appoint temporary employees to terms of up to 10 years. Current regulations cap term and temporary appointments at four years, which OPM said often isn't enough time for agencies to complete IT projects or congressionally-appropriated research.
September 11, 2020 -
The President Management Fellows (PMF) Program is planning to offer its upcoming class the chance to take a cybersecurity aptitude and attitude test, with the goal placing high-potential finalists in program analyst positions at participating agencies.
September 10, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management’s USA Staffing Onboarding platform beat out 39 other finalists for the Igniting Innovation award from ACT-IAC.
September 03, 2020 -
Next week 2,400 members from the Air Force members will move to the new U.S. Space Force, the latest development in what have been a busy eight months to say the least.
August 27, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Special Counsel Henry Kerner said the Hatch Act does not apply to Trump and Pence, the Post Office lost $1 billion dollars last month and a missing Fort Hood soldier is found dead.
August 27, 2020 -
Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, EPA and GSA procurement leaders shared how they're making frictionless acquisition a reality.
August 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, early retirement and buyout offers the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation made to employees back in March are off the table.
August 25, 2020 -
There's no let up in the demand for scientists, engineers and management professionals to staff the nation's nuclear enterprise. NNSA and its contractors are looking to hire about 600 people.
August 24, 2020 -
Lt. Gen. David Thompson, the vice commander of the U.S. Space Force, said the service is creating a new training curriculum to make sure employees have a minimum set of digital skills.
August 21, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the union representing USCIS employees is disappointed Congress left town for August recess before passing emergency funding for the agency.
August 17, 2020 -
Defense and national security tech leaders are trying to balance implications of mass telework with pre-existing cyber priorities, and fend off an unending onslaught of bad actors trying to exploit the – in some cases – woefully unprepared remote federal workforce.
August 14, 2020 -
At one point or another, many federal workers have dreamed about what they would do if and when their agency offered them a buyout.
August 13, 2020 -
A June hiring executive order represents the biggest shift in the way agencies evaluate and assess applicants for federal employment since the Carter administration, an Office of Personnel Management official told Federal News Network.
August 11, 2020