Hiring/Retention
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Under a new executive order from President Donald Trump, agencies must revise and update job classification and qualification standards, and they'll be encouraged to prioritize skills-based assessments over a college degree when vetting and evaluating potential hires.
June 26, 2020 -
The United States is in a worldwide competition for talent in artificial intelligence. So it makes sense to understand the career motivations of these workers.
June 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Trump administration is reminding Congress of budget challenges at US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
June 26, 2020 -
That 4,000 soldier deficit came in April and May when the Army saw a dip of about 2,000 new enlistments per month.
June 25, 2020 -
Out of 164 recommendations the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service made recently to Congress, federal recruitment, hiring and workforce challenges captured the most attention.
June 24, 2020 -
The National Nuclear Security Administration, which has had success with in-person job hiring fairs, is going virtual.
June 23, 2020 -
The Senior Executives Association points out the non-SES portion of the federal workforce is 18% black, but the SES is less than 11% black.
June 22, 2020 -
Proxy voting with or without quorum, video hearings, limiting member travel and maintaining social distancing at the Capitol have required lawmakers to reconsider the long-term viability of some well-established practices.
June 18, 2020 -
The State Department has recognized diversity challenges across multiple administrations, but GAO has reported on the same workforce challenges for the past 30 years.
June 18, 2020 -
The Chief Information Officers Council has 10 recommendations to better recruit, retain and reskill the federal IT workforce of the future.
June 11, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Chief Information Officers Council says government needs a new pay and personnel system to better recruit and compensate the future federal IT workforce.
June 11, 2020 -
If you could work from home, would you work for less? That’s not an option for federal workers, yet, but it could be part of the major upheaval many experts predict as the world comes out of and slowly adjusts to life after the pandemic.
June 09, 2020 -
The coronavirus made in-person internships a risky proposition, but the Virtual Student Federal Service might see a higher-than-average level of interest when the application for students goes live July 1.
June 08, 2020 -
Joe Paiva, a retired Army officer and former CIO at the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, offers federal and industry executives some ideas for making hiring more equitable and less unintentionally biased.
June 05, 2020 -
Most federal civil servants are either working from home or in a furloughed status, but all are getting paid. By contrast at least 40 million American workers have been fired or furloughed and are seeking unemployment benefits.
June 03, 2020