skills-based hiring

• Agencies have a standardized set of skills to look for when hiring, developing program evaluators

  In a new competency model, OPM listed 33 specific skills that it said are important for program evaluation work.

  Hiring/Retention

  November 08, 2023
• New OPM ‘handbook’ details skills-based job qualifications for governmentwide roles

  The initiative from OPM aims to help agencies provide consistent messaging about how federal job candidates are chosen, trained and evaluated.

  Workforce

  September 21, 2023
• Reforming federal hiring: Does the Chance to Compete Act promise more than the government can deliver?

  The massively bipartisan Chance to Compete Act aims to modernize federal hiring — but experts say limitations in HR offices could stunt its potential, while others think the bill doesn’t take hiring reform far enough.

  Federal Report

  September 04, 2023
• 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 recruitment program.

  Hiring/Retention

  August 15, 2023
• Agencies to ‘remove barriers’ to cyber hiring under new workforce strategy

  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.

  Workforce

  July 31, 2023
• Reintroduced bills aim to fix hiring process, Social Security benefits for feds

  Lawmakers reintroduced the Social Security Fairness Act, aiming to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, as well as the Chance to Compete Act, seeking to revamp the federal hiring process.

  Congress

  January 24, 2023
• CHCO Council looks to scale, replicate successful pilots for federal hiring reform

  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.

  Workforce

  December 15, 2022
• Bills, amendments linger in Congress with lasting implications for feds

  Part of the lengthy to-do list for legislators by the end of the year, several bills and amendments may have significant impacts for the federal workforce.

  Congress

  November 23, 2022