Pathways Program

With record number of interns, NSF is ‘intentional’ about career growth

At the National Science Foundation, one in five new hires this year has been an intern. Now NSF is looking to make full-time positions more appealing to them.

Hiring/Retention

Graphic By: Derace Lauderdale

Federal workforce diversity still lagging in more senior roles

Workforce

Early-career federal job openings seeing ‘renewed and increased’ interest, OPM’s Shriver says

Hiring/Retention

The Department of Health and Human Services building

HHS thinking creatively to implement new Pathways flexibilities

Workforce

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Feds heighten calls to service during Public Service Recognition Week

Hiring/Retention

Graphic By: Derace Lauderdale

Still ‘long way to go’ after 13% bump in federal early-career employees

Hiring/Retention

Pathways Program overhaul seeks to open doors to more candidates

Workforce

OPM prioritizing pooled hiring, HR workforce in 2025 budget

Budget

Telework changes, hiring reforms of 2023 charting a course into the new year

Workforce

Agencies would see broader applicant pools, more flexibility in Pathways Program under OPM proposal

Hiring/Retention

OPM making plans to broaden the applicant pool for paid federal internships

Hiring/Retention

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, and NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, speak to federal interns at experience program launch event. Photo by Drew Friedman, Federal News Network.

NASA helps launch a new program, and it’s not going to space

Now back from space, three NASA astronauts have a new mission: to help recruit the next generation of federal employees.

Federal Report

Agencies get clearer direction from OPM, OMB to expand early-career pipeline

New guidance from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget details how agencies can expand paid internship opportunities.

Workforce

OPM says federal employees ‘agency-hopping’ to telework-friendly offices

Hiring/Retention

The Biden administration sees a bright future for telework in the federal workforce, after many agencies sent employees home in the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.