federal hiring

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

The Office of Personnel Management said while agencies still need to make progress to close critical skills gaps, there are resources and incentives already…

Workforce

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

Workforce

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

Workforce

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Fix the people doing the hiring, not the process

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

Hiring/Retention

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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)

Why federal hiring is harder than ever

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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)

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

Hiring/Retention

New Trump EO urges agencies to prioritize skills over college degrees in federal hiring

Under a new executive order from President Donald Trump, agencies must revise and update job classification and qualification standards, and they’ll be…

Hiring/Retention

Cyber Excepted Service: Bolstering DoD’s cyber workforce

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Commentary

Census Bureau to hire a half-million part-timers for 2020 headcount

Federal Drive

The U.S. Census Bureau is kicking off a campaign to recruit and hire as many as 500,000 temporary workers to help with the largest head count in U.S. history next spring.

federal hiring

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

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

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

Fix the people doing the hiring, not the process

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

Why federal hiring is harder than ever

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

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

Trump administration provides guidance for recent federal hiring EO

Implementing EO to change federal hiring practices

New federal hiring EO attempts to find quality among the ‘experts’

New Trump EO urges agencies to prioritize skills over college degrees in federal hiring

Cyber Excepted Service: Bolstering DoD’s cyber workforce

Census Bureau to hire a half-million part-timers for 2020 headcount