federal hiring reform

New USAJobs database should help agencies easily share qualified candidates

A new “talent pools” portal on USAJobs will compile a database of agencies’ already-qualified job applicants, which other agencies can then consider…

Hiring/Retention

How will OPM’s ‘rule of many’ function in federal hiring?

Workforce

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 3, 2016, file photo, a job candidate's resume sits on a table as he interviews for a job during a recruiting event at the Georgia Department of Labor office in Atlanta. One state and at least two cities have passed laws that bar employers from asking applicants about their salary history. Several states have proposed similar legislation in 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

For a hybrid workforce, federal HR leaders look to improve hiring, retention

Workforce

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Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workforce changes may still lie ahead for federal employees in 2023

Workforce

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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Congress sets a deadline for federal hiring reform in omnibus spending bill

Congress

office of personnel management office

Biden’s pick for OPM deputy director addresses concerns about federal hiring, retirement processing

Workforce

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Could artificial intelligence lead to genuine hiring bias?

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Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

For OPM’s Ahuja, ‘strong human capital leadership’ crucial to federal workforce reform

Workforce

How agencies can recruit better job candidates with skills-based approach

Hiring/Retention

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House lawmakers push hiring reforms for federal jobs

Hiring/Retention

Now the question is when, not how, to fix federal hiring

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