Kiran Ahuja
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Agencies hope to resolve growing recruitment and retention challenges for federal firefighters with a pay raise and new guidance for career paths.
June 21, 2022 -
To help agencies get hiring right, the Office of Personnel Management has new guidance for managers to pick candidates based on broader past experiences.
May 20, 2022 -
OPM will use Bipartisan Infrastructure Law recruitment as an opportunity to create better pathways to federal jobs for younger and more diverse candidates.
May 03, 2022 -
To underscore his commitment to the federal workforce and take a step to mitigate low trust in government, President Joe Biden publicly recognized recipients of the 2021 Presidential Rank Awards, ending a nearly 20-year hiatus.
May 03, 2022 -
Agencies’ return-to-office plans and a jump in hybrid workers play a role in the decrease for federal employees’ engagement and satisfaction scores in the 2021 FEVS.
April 28, 2022 -
Everyone feels overwhelmed or disconnected from time to time. Burnout happens when these feelings don't abate.
April 28, 2022 -
A government-wide effort to help formerly incarcerated individuals readjust to the workforce includes agency training sessions, interviewing tips from the Office of Personnel Management.
April 27, 2022 -
OPM issued a second round of guidance to agencies, outlining several ways agencies should make federal employees more aware of their collective bargaining rights.
April 12, 2022 -
The 2023 White House budget request includes more funding for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives at the Office of Personnel Management.
March 30, 2022 -
President Joe Biden is calling for more federal employees to return to the office, saying “significant progress” made fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has made it safer to do so.
March 01, 2022 -
The minimum wage for federal employees and contractors is now $15/hour, and the administration is calling it a victory for pay equity. But experts say there's a lot more work to do to, especially around equitable recruitment and hiring.
January 31, 2022 -
The Office of Personnel Management and Commerce Department will host a roundtable to discuss the best ways to implement diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into hiring and recruitment.
January 26, 2022 -
Kiran Ahuja, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, explains why making sure the federal workforce earns a minimum wage of $15 per hour is so important.
January 21, 2022 -
OPM is creating a Chief Diversity Officer Council and exploring the possibility of creating a job classification series for federal employees who work as diversity experts.
January 12, 2022 -
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council has a new operational mandate, and it's been discussing "future of work" policies and challenges on an almost weekly basis with the Office of Personnel Management.
December 14, 2021