Hiring/Retention
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The Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program operates as a pipeline from minority serving institutions into the Energy Department.
November 06, 2019 -
The Federal Salary Council is still debating a series of controversial changes to the methodology currently used to set federal employee locality pay.
November 05, 2019 -
Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, managing partners and principal analysts at Cognilytica, joined host John Gilory on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss artificial intelligence and whether it will create or eliminate jobs in the federal government.
November 05, 2019 -
Attorney Debra D'Agostino of the Federal Practice Group joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an analysis.
November 01, 2019 -
Moving people out of D.C. has been proposed before, but commentator and former Homeland Security CHCO Jeff Neal says the HIRE Act's reasoning is flawed.
October 31, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, members of the House Homeland Security Committee are asking leaders at the Transportation Security Administration what it can do to pay the agency's officers more.
October 30, 2019 -
For more on this thinking, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to long-time federal sales consultant Larry Allen.
October 29, 2019 -
Margaret Weichert, the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, says she is deeply concerned about structural impediments to bring agility to government.
October 28, 2019 -
The U.S. Digital Service said it sees promise in a new hiring pilot designed to better find and screen candidates who are truly qualified for the job, with help from agency subject matter experts.
October 25, 2019 -
A top U.S. Census Bureau official says the agency has verified millions of addresses and is now kicking off a campaign to recruit and hire as many as 500,000 temporary workers to help with the largest head count in U.S. history next spring
October 22, 2019 -
The Merit Systems Protection Board praised recent Office of Personnel Management guidance designed to help agencies better assess job candidates and their qualifications. But the assessment tools OPM offers to agencies for a fee are often too expensive, MSPB said.
October 21, 2019 -
You'll find larger numbers of young people working on federal contracts rather than at the awarding agencies.
October 21, 2019 -
If we take some agile concepts and apply them to how government is organized and staffed, we may see that many criticisms of shortcomings can be addressed.
October 17, 2019 -
The Army is still drafting an implementation plan for the civilian employee side of its new, overarching "People Strategy." But officials are previewing some of the ideas that may soon become Army-wide policy.
October 17, 2019 -
Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent, who has overseen some of the administration’s reskilling pilots, said some anxieties about automation aren’t new.
October 17, 2019