Hiring/Retention
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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 -
The Army is taking in vast amounts of information on its soldiers to place them in their most fitting jobs.
October 16, 2019 -
A new talent management system is among the biggest changes since Army went volunteer.
October 16, 2019 -
The Army rolled out a new and comprehensive strategy for talent management that is all about recruitment and retention.
October 16, 2019 -
On Tuesday, the Army released its first-ever "People Strategy." Implementation plans are yet to come, but the service is already rethinking its selection process for new commanders.
October 16, 2019 -
In effort to foster a more diverse and inclusive workforce, the Coast Guard is also developing a new certification program to create "diversity and inclusion practitioners" across its leadership cadre.
October 15, 2019 -
The background checking process for security clearance is becoming a continuous thing, with ongoing monitoring of databases for clues to changes in cleared peoples' situations.
October 11, 2019 -
Agencies are finding ways on their own to hire top talent, reskill existing employees and manage their workforces with more agility, a skill the Trump administration says is necessary absent some sweeping civil service modernization.
October 09, 2019