Workforce

  • The military service depends on retired federal workers\' expertise to help with policy development and buying goods and services. Congress extended the ability of agencies to hire annuitants through 2015. The Army said these experienced workers are helping to fill the acquisition workforce gaps that it created with huge reductions in the 1990s.

    February 23, 2012
  • This week on AFGE\'s \"Inside Government\" Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) discusses the importance of the 2012 elections, health care reform and what a single-payer health care system in the U.S. would look like. AFGE Field Services and Education Director Bill Fletcher and Transportation Security Administration Local Presidents Rick McCoy and Kim Kraynak-Lambert also join the program from the recent AFGE TSA Council 100 Founding Convention.

    February 22, 2012
  • Nominations are now being accepted for the third annual Causey Awards. The awards honor exceptional performance by individuals in the human capital management field.

    February 22, 2012
  • The lab has submitted a plan to the National Nuclear Security Administration and is waiting for approval to offer the buyouts.

    February 22, 2012
  • A survey by the information security certifying organization (ISC)2 found demand is high and salaries increasing for information security personnel.

    February 22, 2012
  • Host Roger Waldron talks federal procurement with David Drabkin, corporate director for Acquisition Policy at the Northrop Grumman Corporation. February 21, 2012

    February 21, 2012
  • Former Government Accountability Office Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues Rich Stana never aspired to public service. As a newly-minted business school graduate, he interviewed for jobs at banks and companies, but didn't find them appealing. Then his dean suggested applying to GAO, where he could apply his business knowledge to auditing government programs. Stana never looked back. He retired in December after 35 years.

    February 21, 2012
  • Boxwood Executive Search President Bert Sadtler will talk about how government agencies use executive search firms. February 20, 2012

    February 20, 2012
  • Every week, Federal New\'s Radio\'s Ruben Gomez speaks with Recreation News Editor Marvin Bond about fun things to do in and near the nation\'s capital.

    February 20, 2012
  • Whether the strategy is reducing personnel, consolidating offices or investing IT, \"every one of them impacts people,\" said Ron Sanders, the former chief human capital officer for the Director of National Intelligence and now the executive adviser for Booz Allen Hamilton.

    February 20, 2012
  • Happy William Henry Harrison day. Actually this holiday, officially known as Washington\'s Birthday Holiday, has been hijacked by merchants hoping you might buy more if it honored more people. But Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it\'ll always be GWs birthday to him, and Martha.

    February 20, 2012
  • John Guyant, chief learning officer at CIA University, joins host Derrick Dortch to talk about the school\'s mission. February 17, 2012(Encore presentation February 24, 2012)

    February 17, 2012
  • Tim McManus, vice president of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss a recent report on diversity and what the results show by gender and race.

    February 17, 2012
  • According to Jorge Ponce, co-chair of the Council of Federal EEO and Civil Rights Executives, Latinos are under-represented across all job categories and levels of the government, all the way up to senior executive rank.

    February 17, 2012