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Foreign Service makes candidate assessment fully remote to broaden hiring pool

The Foreign Service is making a switch to virtual assessments for candidates, after figuring out a remote format during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hiring/Retention

Congress, Biden administration look for ways to boost federal recruitment, retention of military spouses

Defense

To stay employed, military spouses continue to battle their highly-mobile lifestyles

Federal Newscast

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State Dept rethinks training for Foreign Service at all levels amid hiring surge

Hiring/Retention

Meet the Foreign Service’s next generation of IT experts

Federal Report

State Department officer fights his way back from disease that left him permanently disabled

Workforce

Federal lawsuit over 2015 OPM breach seems all but wrapped up

Federal Newscast

We check with a new State Department bureau that’s only been open eight weeks

Technology

State Dept. IG raises ‘favoritism’ concerns within Foreign Service promotion boards

Hiring/Retention

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference Thursday, March 17, 2022, at the State Department in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Members of Congress want State Dept to go to bat for LGBTQ diplomats

Federal Newscast

USAID’s first DEI director starting with demographic data for recruits, promotions

People

How one big State Department bureau is updating its approach to cybersecurity

A crucial part of the State Department has a new head of crucial function at a time of high world tension.

Technology

An inside look at the State Department during a war in Europe

The ongoing aggression by Vladimir Putin and his Russian armed forces has provoked a nearly all-of-government response from the United States, no less…

People

FILE - A sign requiring masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus is posted on a store front in Philadelphia, on Feb. 16, 2022. The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

New COVID guidance for federal agencies to match CDC recommendations

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force has new guidance for masking and COVID testing for federal agencies.