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Jeri Buchholz, a strategic business development adviser for FMP Consulting and former chief human capital officer at NASA, tells federal leaders how to prepare for a moratorium at their agencies.
The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.
Only eight weeks into the job, David Shulkin is rethinking health care goals within the Veterans Affairs Department
Former Defense Department Comptroller Bob Hale wants Congress to learn from the past five years of budgetary turmoil. Congress has about 10 work days when it gets back from recess Sept. 8. – with no immediate sign of a budget deal for fiscal 2016.
The Labor Department used to be one of the worst agencies to work for, according to its own employees. But now, its leaders are focused on making the agency a model employer, says Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu.
Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, said agencies need to build from within to address talent gaps throughout the government.
Young federal employees have a new space to communicate and share ideas and with each other. Young Government Leaders has launched an online university. It's a place where feds can share the lessons they've learned in training or articles relevant to their jobs in the federal workplace. Miguel Joey Aviles is the chief learning officer for YGL. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how the university can help young feds with their careers.
The NSA's adviser on equality says workforce diversity is improving as the agency attempts to balance its mission with the men and women hired to help it succeed.
The number of federal employees under age 30 dropped nearly 3 percent over the past three years. That's according to recent analysis from the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte. Agencies want to reverse that trend. Tim McManus is vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that some private sector consulting and tech companies are beating agencies at the recruiting game by just showing up first.
The lack of privacy and quiet is a nuisance to many federal employees. But those with disabilities see the trend toward shared office space in much starker terms.
Altegrity, USIS’s parent company, agreed to forgo at least $30 million in fees the government owed it in return for not being held liable for alleged violations of the “dumping” or “flushing” security clearances over a 18-year period.
In late 2009, President Barack Obama ordered agencies to hire more veterans. They have. Veterans used to be confined mostly to the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. But the Office of Personnel Management says one out of every three new employees in fiscal 2014 was a veteran. OPM Director of Veterans Services Hakeem Basheerud-Deen tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp how the whole government has stepped up to the challenge.
The government is getting ready to declare a big win at the end of next month. It looks likely to reach a goal of hiring 100,000 people with disabilities within five years. President Barack Obama set that target in a July 2010 executive order. The Office of Personnel Management's special adviser on disabilities, Michael Murray, tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp what happened next.
The share of jobs going to veterans has increased steadily each year since President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2009 to focus efforts on veterans' employment.