federal hiring

Hiring people is easy. Hiring the right people? Not so easy

Business whisperers define management as getting things done through others. If you’re the manager, that makes two basics incumbent on you. One, can you…

Tom Temin Commentary

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For lots of federal jobs, apprenticeship is the way to go

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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2019, file photo, passengers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The chief of the TSA said Monday, July 1, that travelers should see only a slight increase in checkpoint wait times over the four-day July 4 holiday weekend despite the diversion of about 350 employees including screeners to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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MSPB says federal hiring officials should focus more on skills rather than education

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Looking for a job? Now could be a good time to start your intelligence career

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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

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Agencies have resources available to help close skills gaps, OPM says

Workforce

OPM removes two federal skills gaps from its high-risk list, but three positions remain

Workforce

Two agencies took initial steps to implement Schedule F, GAO finds

Workforce

Fix the people doing the hiring, not the process

Federal Report

OMB ‘heavily focused’ on early-career recruitment in President’s Management Agenda

Hiring/Retention

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)

Why federal hiring is harder than ever

Prospective employees are pickier than ever about where, when, how and for whom they’ll work

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OPM’s Ahuja says agencies need to balance speed with ‘doing it right’ for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law hiring

OPM will use Bipartisan Infrastructure Law recruitment as an opportunity to create better pathways to federal jobs for younger and more diverse candidates.

Hiring/Retention

OPM, DOL to use data, early-career pathways to advance hiring equity

Hiring/Retention

To advance equity, the Office of Personnel Management will make demographic data analysis easier for agencies, while the Labor Department will target underserved communities to expand apprenticeship opportunities.