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Agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs are calling on federal retirees to return to government and help with their coronavirus responses as reemployed annuitants. Thinking of joining them? Here's what you need to know.
In today's Federal Newscast, search space-force on USAJobs.gov, and you'll come up with 39 jobs, and not clerks or mail room staff, either.
Blaming USAJobs is another example of trying to find a silver bullet to kill everything that is wrong with the federal hiring process.
Attracting in-demand cybersecurity talent to government service could be as simple as retraining current federal employees for the jobs of the future.
In the omnibus spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week, CIOs at the Agriculture and State departments received specific empowerments provisions.
The Office of Personnel Management unveiled another round of updates to USAJobs.gov, the federal jobs portal that long left applicants, agency human resource specialists and chief human capital officers frustrated with the hiring process. It's part of OPM's ongoing and iterative efforts to improve the user and agency experience with USAJobs.
The Office of Personnel Management says it's spent the past eight years working within the confines of current laws and regulations to modernize the federal personnel system and help agencies better recruit, hire and retain talented employees. But as the Obama administration winds down, OPM suggested that future administrations should more seriously discuss reform to those civil service regulations.
A new site designed to serve as a one-stop shop for federal managers, employees, job seekers and academic institutions and students in the cybersecurity field will launch within the next two months. The Office of Personnel Management said it's one of several steps the administration is taking to help agencies better recruit and hire new talent.
The updated USAJobs.gov is looking pretty good. As in, two clicks to lists of jobs in your general area of expertise.
The Office of Personnel Management's tools and pilot programs to improve federal hiring and workforce engagement have improved in some areas but stalled in others.
A team at the Office of Personnel Management, along with the agency's Innovation Lab, has been adding new features to USAJobs.gov in six to eight week increments. Program Manager Michelle Earley said it will take another 18 to 24 months to fully launch the next generation of USAJobs.
The Office of Personnel Management will officially launch the Hiring Excellence Campaign in January. The goal is to help agencies across the country realize and use the tools they already have to hire new, talented professionals.
Recruiting new talent at the National Cemetery Administration is getting faster now because the agency has focused on streamlining its hiring process. NCA is using data analytics to help it hire the right people quickly. 80 percent of NCA's recruitment gets done in about 60 days. Dissatisfaction with traditional outlets like USAJobs.gov means some agencies often look for other approaches to the hiring process. Tim McManus is vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu that other agencies can learn from these best practices -- mainly by making better use of data.
Four in 10 federal employees will be eligible to retire in the next five years. Who will take their place remains the big question. Meanwhile, 70 percent of jobs advertised on USAJobs.gov go to internal candidates, says Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta.