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The Homeland Security Department held the second of its major hiring events last December. It made about 40 job offers to college students and recent graduates for a few positions across all of DHS' components. Now, the department is reviewing what worked and what didn't from the virtual job fair to inform its 2017 recruitment strategy.
The Office of Personnel Management is expanding its definition of "diversity." It wants agencies to not only think about and study race, national origin and gender but also differences in age, experience and perspective. The goal is to get top agency leaders to think about diversity and inclusion as an enterprise-wide challenge, not just a human capital issue.
The White House hosts agency leaders to develop concrete, actionable ideas on developing a more diverse, inclusive federal workforce.
Federal employees with disabilities made up 14.4 percent of the workforce in fiscal 2015, an improvement over 2014's 13.6 percent. Agencies also hired more employees with disabilities, 26,466 new hires compared with 20,618 new hires in 2014. The latest report from the Office of Personnel Management on the topic shows record disability hiring among agencies over the past 35 years.
The Air Force is standing up a new human capital analytics office, hoping to make better use of the data it already has in order to help solve ongoing recruiting and retention challenges.
Hispanics represented 8.5 percent of the permanent federal workforce in 2015, a 0.1 percent bump over fiscal 2014's numbers. Though 2015 marks the sixth consecutive year where the Hispanic federal population has increased, leaders within the Office of Personnel Management are noticeably disappointed that the progress is happening slowly.
Minorities made up 24.6 percent of the intelligence community workforce in fiscal 2015, a 1.4 percent increase since 2011, according to the latest workforce demographics report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Women represented 38.5 percent of the IC workforce. But compared with the rest of the federal workforce, the IC still has more progress to make.
Beth Cobert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, wants more people to know about the hard, important work federal employees do every day.
The federal human resources community suggests agencies change their approach to hiring. Rather than hedge their bets that USAJobs.gov will help them identify a diverse pool of qualified new applicants, hiring managers should constantly target specific groups of talented people, the Office of Personnel Management says.
The Diversity and Inclusion Strategy for 2016-19 sets a three-year course for the CIA to embrace and integrate diversity into its workforce.
The Hispanic Council on Federal Employment agreed to set up a working group that would study and ultimately propose how agencies can conduct more comprehensive barrier analyses of Hispanics in the federal workforce. Hispanics made up 8.4 percent of the federal workforce in 2014.
The Office of Personnel Management's Veronica Villalobos says the 2 percent growth in Hispanic federal employees is a sign of slow and steady progress.
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.
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.