Hiring/Retention
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The Trump administration announced 10 cybersecurity detail opportunities, which are designed to give current federal employees, including the graduates of the Cybersecurity Reskilling Academy, the chance to gain hands-on experience in the field.
March 11, 2020 -
It took agencies an average of 98 days to hire new talent, according to the most recent data available from 2018.
March 09, 2020 -
The Army maintains a network of research laboratories that are encouraging more young people to get into scientific fields.
March 06, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says BLM issued 173 relocation notices to employees, and about 80 accepted the move to Colorado.
March 05, 2020 -
When the government vets people for security clearance, some small differences show up in how it looks at federal employees and contractors.
March 04, 2020 -
The workforce at the Department of Homeland Security is more diverse than most other federal agencies, but the agency struggles to retain those employees for future leadership positions.
March 02, 2020 -
The U.S. Navy wants to create a naval community college to provide associate's degrees to tens of thousands of young sailors and Marines at no cost to them.
March 02, 2020 -
OPM Director Dale Cabaniss sent a memo to agencies detailing ways they can evaluate current employees for reskilling or candidates to hire to fill critical cybersecurity positions.
February 27, 2020 -
A long-feared retirement tsunami in the federal workforce might not happen anytime soon, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still considers an older workforce a risk it needs to manage. With employees working…
February 27, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, in an open letter to the Democratic candidates for president, Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) asked them how they plan to rebuild the federal workforce.
February 27, 2020 -
Bob Tobias, a professor at American University, says next-year's budget proposal from the White House is enough to make some feds say, "Stop the world, I want to get off."
February 26, 2020 -
Housing, relocation and mental health are all issues the Pentagon is trying to get its arms around. It's also areas where service members are struggling.
February 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Government Accountability Office shows that while diversity has increased among workers at the State Department overall, that has not been the case for upper level managers.
February 26, 2020 -
DoD is giving states recommendations on how to improve the licensure reciprocity process.
February 25, 2020 -
One backlog goes down, another one pops up. That's how it is in the background security clearance process.
February 25, 2020