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In a new competency model, OPM listed 33 specific skills that it said are important for program evaluation work.
OPM's overall measure of employee engagement increased to 72%, up one percentage point from the year before, and tying the government’s score from 2020 — a five-year high.
The senior leaders in government across 31 agencies will take home Presidential Rank Awards in recognition of their contributions to public service.
Agencies have so far made hires for 6,099 BIL-related positions, exceeding the administration’s infrastructure hiring target of 5,800 by the end of fiscal 2023.
The pay agent also announced upcoming plans to add two counties to the Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, locality pay area.
The hiring authority lets agencies forgo traditional hiring procedures and noncompetitively appoint some military spouses to certain federal positions.
The initiative from OPM aims to help agencies provide consistent messaging about how federal job candidates are chosen, trained and evaluated.
The Office of Personnel Management issued a proposed rule aiming to reinforce merit system protections for feds in case of a possible return of Schedule F. But some experts call for further action in Congress against Schedule F.
Agencies have until Oct. 13 to submit requests to OPM for new special salary rate approvals. But bigger budget concerns may discourage agencies from requesting or even implementing them.
Although many agencies already delay questions about criminal records during the hiring process, OPM’s final regulations further solidify the practice.
A group of Democrat lawmakers urges OPM to immediately update its definition of infertility, ahead of new requirements for FEHB carriers in 2024.
Expanding eligibility to include technical education programs is just one of many changes the Office of Personnel Management wants to make to the early-career recruitment program.
New video tutorials from the Office of Personnel Management lay out, step by step, a couple of key items on the federal retirement to-do list.
The Office of Personnel Management is taking its first step to define the skills and competencies federal employees will need to work with artificial intelligence.