Office of Personnel Management Deputy Director Rob Shriver said there will be a continuing and increasing emphasis on pooled hiring in the coming months.
After the latest 5.2% federal pay raise, pay compression now applies to 60% of locality pay areas, with some senior-level feds in 35 of the 58 areas hitting an arbitrary pay ceiling.
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.
The Pathways Program is a common path for agencies to pay interns. Now, the Office of Personnel Management plans to revise the program's regulations and broaden the paid internship applicant pool governmentwide.
Agencies have a key role to play in expanding the number of “good paying, middle class” cyber jobs available to a more diverse range of people.
OPM said it will be up to agency supervisors and managers to help hit the ground running to promote the new intern experience program, which includes a plethora of upcoming events throughout the summer.
Now back from space, three NASA astronauts have a new mission: to help recruit the next generation of federal employees.
The National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with its union to extend telework eligibility to all permanent agency employees.
The omnibus spending bill would give the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget 120 days to come up with a plan to speed up the federal hiring process.
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council hopes to duplicate and scale up successful pilots for federal hiring reform, including the use of shared certificates and skills-based hiring practices.
Biden’s nominees requiring Senate confirmation take 127 days, on average, to get through the process, the Partnership for Public Service said.
Biden’s nominee for OPM deputy director, Rob Shriver, would be the first position-holder since January 2021, if the Senate confirms him.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Biden Administration Office of Personnel Management gets its first second-in-command. And the Navy has a new top intelligence officer.
Rob Shriver, the associate director for employee services at OPM, will move from the associate director for employee services role into the deputy director role if confirmed by the Senate.
Love it or hate it, but more federal employees are coming back into the office next month.