The Office of Personnel Management received fewer new federal retirement claims than it processed in April, allowing the agency to cut its once-sizable backlog down to a more manageable size.
As part of the Hiring Excellence campaign, OPM is going on the road to speak with the federal HR community in the field. The goal is to better educate HR specialists and hiring managers about the wide variety of authorities and flexibilities they already have to recruit and hire new talent.
If someone is going to be unqualified for a job for a criminal past, why should hiring entities wait until down the line and waste everybody’s time?
A rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management on April 29 would delay criminal history checks until after federal employers have already issued a conditional offer of employment to an applicant.
Beth Cobert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, wants more people to know about the hard, important work federal employees do every day.
More than 50 members of the House cosigned a letter asking President Obama to make the federal hiring process more accessible to Americans with criminal histories.
The Office of Personnel Management has new guidance for agencies to begin closing six governmentwide skills gaps. Closing gaps in cybersecurity, as well as the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields is one of OPM's top concerns.
Randy Silvey, president Silverlight Financial, advises federal employees to take action now to protect their identities and credit by paying for a credit freeze and changing financial passwords.
The Department of Justice has petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case that could impact presidential appointments and thousands of federal employees.
The federal human resources community suggests agencies change their approach to hiring. Rather than hedge their bets that USAJobs.gov will help them identify a diverse pool of qualified new applicants, hiring managers should constantly target specific groups of talented people, the Office of Personnel Management says.
OPM awarded a new seven-year contract to John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Company to administer the federal long-term care insurance program.
Alan Balutis, a senior director and distinguished fellow with Cisco Systems’ U.S. Public Sector Group, argues that the next president should provide early-out authority to quicken the pace of long-time federal employees leaving and make room for the next generations.
In the latest Performance.gov progress report for the cross-agency priority goal of developing the federal workforce to its full potential, seven of 12 milestones are at risk, while two others have been missed.
The investigations process is to blame for higher security clearance processing times at the beginning of 2016 and end of 2015. Challenges with culture, resources and legal questions are also pushing agencies farther and farther off schedule in standing up their own insider threat programs.
All Federal Employee Health Benefit program carriers are required to cover applied behavior analysis (ABA) benefits for children on the autism spectrum this year. The Office of Personnel Management is also adding 19 performance standards to measure how well the program's carriers are doing.