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

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…

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

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Agencies to ‘remove barriers’ to cyber hiring under new workforce strategy

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OPM turns to agency leaders to promote new intern experience program

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Drew Friedman, Federal News NetworkJapan 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

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FILE - People walk up the steps even though the National Archives is closed with the partial government shutdown Dec. 22, 2018, in Washington. The nominee to head the National Archives is set to face an abnormally contentious Senate confirmation hearing this week. President Joe Biden nominated Colleen Shogan to take over the nation's record-keeping agency last month. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

NARA becomes latest agency to expand telework in new union agreement

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(AP Photo/Mike Groll)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)

Congress sets a deadline for federal hiring reform in omnibus spending bill

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CHCO Council looks to scale, replicate successful pilots for federal hiring reform

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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Sun shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Senate confirmation process lags as leadership vacancies remain

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Biden’s pick for OPM deputy director addresses concerns about federal hiring, retirement processing

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President nominates new OPM deputy director

Rob Shriver, the associate director for employee services at OPM, will move from the associate director for employee services role into the deputy director…

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Back to the office, begrudgingly? What agencies can learn from CISA’s office reentry plans

Love it or hate it, but more federal employees are coming back into the office next month.

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(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)Senior Master Sgt. Paul Kalle, 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron first sergeant, speaks with a family during a Deployed Spouses Dinner Feb. 18, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The monthly event is a free dinner at Georgia Pines Dining Facility designed as a ‘thank you’ for each families’ support and sacrifice while their spouse is deployed or on a remote assignment. The dinner, occurring on every third Tuesday of the month, provides an opportunity for spouses to interact with other families of deployed Airmen, key spouses and unit leadership, as well as provide a break for the spouse while military sponsor is deployed. The next Deployed Spouses Dinner will be March 17. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)

Military spouses should see more flexible job opportunities under new OPM hiring policy

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For the next 22 months, agencies can noncompetitively hire military spouses to a federal position regardless of their location, according to a long-awaited policy the Office of Personnel Management finalized early this week.

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