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Byline: Howard Risher In Certainty, a new book by retired CIA Chief of HR Mike Mears, the preface includes a brief story about a call from the agency's deputy director, [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms, Eric Katz Federal agencies across government are gathering and submitting lists of recent hires and, in some cases, asking those employees to explain their backgrounds and justify [...]

Byline: Ronald Sanders It's Cold Outside...and IN! It's a few days after Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C., and the temperature is still bitterly cold! But it's not only freezing outside! [...]

Federal employees in the Washington area were allowed to take unscheduled leave or work from home on Thursday due to snowy conditions, the Office of Personnel Management announced. OPM has [...]

Federal agencies have made progress on reducing the amount of time it takes to hire new employees, but they still have to make headway on attracting quality candidates and developing [...]

Organizations that have fully or partially automated their recruitment and hiring processes have garnered better performance among their new hires and have reduced the time and cost to fill new [...]

Federal workers frustrated by the General Schedule have the sympathy of their agency's human resources officials, many of whom would not mind seeing the government 'blow up' the decades-old personnel [...]

Agencies are falling short when it comes to selecting, training and supporting front-line managers, according to a new Merit Systems Protection Board report (http://www.mspb.gov/netsearch/viewdocs.aspx?docnumber=516534&version=517986&application=ACROBAT). In the report, MSPB called first-line [...]

In May, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry and Jeffrey Zients, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, stood before a crowd of human resources [...]

After strong debate from both sides of the aisle, the Senate on Thursday rejected a legislative provision that would have frozen federal pay and the size of the government workforce. [...]

A roundup of some of the comments received this week in the GovExec.com Mailbag (http://www.govexec.com/mailbag.cfm). All comments are presented in their original, unedited form. On Burning Question: Where's the best [...]

The Obama administration on Tuesday will unveil a major overhaul of the federal hiring process, the Office of Personnel Management announced. The hiring reform memorandum will ask agencies to do [...]

The Office of Personnel Management testified on Thursday that most agencies are going above and beyond when it comes to complying with a 2004 law that requires managers to undergo [...]

On TSA is entering a new developmental phase, executive says (http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=45090) An attack on Mass transit wont shut down the Nation, an attack on Aviation will bring everything to a [...]

As union and good government leaders express their support for more training for federal managers, the Office of Personnel Management says many agencies already are meeting the requirements proposed in [...]

An Environmental Protection Agency region engaged in a prohibited personnel practice by giving several candidates for Federal Career Intern Program vacancies improper advantages during the hiring process, according to a [...]

As soon as next week, the White House will release a hiring reform memo that will promote using resumes in place of knowledge, skills and abilities essays, a senior human [...]

A roundup of some of the comments received this week in the GovExec.com Mailbag (http://www.govexec.com/mailbag.cfm). All comments are presented in their original, unedited form. On Lawmakers announce initiative to increase [...]

Worries that the financial rewards of taking senior executive positions might not make up for the increased workload could be discouraging federal employees, especially younger ones, from seeking promotions, according [...]

Federal benefits payments will go exclusively electronic by 2013, the Treasury Department announced on Monday. Treasury's decision applies to all recipients of Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans Affairs, Railroad [...]

The Office of Personnel Management is conducting an aggressive branding campaign and launching a testing facility for new technologies and flexible working arrangements to recruit talented workers, Director John Berry [...]

Lawmakers have launched an initiative to increase diversity among House staff after a recent report spotlighted the lack of minorities working on Capitol Hill. The plan, announced (http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=1624) on Tuesday [...]

The Office of Personnel Management and departments of State, Defense and Labor soon will introduce a legislative proposal to standardize pay and benefits for civilian employees on assignment overseas, OPM [...]

The ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked the White House to report on whether its recruitment of unpaid interns is compliant with labor laws. [...]

The Office of Personnel Management has given the Defense Department permission to waive time-in-grade requirements for employees who are moving from the National Security Personnel System to the General Schedule, [...]

Federal internship programs should be revamped to include more evaluation of participants' fitness for permanent employment, a public service nonprofit group said in response to a proposal to allow direct [...]

A group of public administration schools has proposed largely scrapping the competitive federal hiring process for graduate students in favor of a revitalized internship and apprenticeship program. 'By constricting the [...]

A new report from the advocacy group Federally Employed Women says the hiring rate of women for top federal jobs has stagnated in recent years. From 1992 to 2003, the [...]

The Office of Personnel Management has launched a tool to reduce the hiring process for certain federal jobs by three weeks. In an April 7 memo (http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2913) to chief human [...]

A report (http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/040610ar1.pdf) on an October 2009 meeting of high-level officials and other leaders about the future of federal personnel policy calls for compromise and caution against viewing technology or [...]

Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry announced at a White House forum on Wednesday that he is moving 400 agency employees into a pilot program that will go beyond [...]

A House subcommittee on Wednesday approved legislation to promote telework in federal agencies, increase oversight of prescription drug coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and allow federal employees [...]

A roundup of some of the comments received this week in the GovExec.com Mailbag (http://www.govexec.com/mailbag.cfm). All comments are presented in their original, unedited form. On Census is counting on ad [...]

The much-maligned essays on federal job applications known as knowledge, skills and abilities statements could be eliminated from the hiring process by April, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry [...]

The additional workload associated with administering billions of dollars in stimulus funds has put a strain on the federal government's contracts and grants workforce, according to new findings (http://www.oig.doc.gov/oig/reports/2010/ARR%20780%20Contracts%20and%20Grants%20Workforce%20Staffing.pdf) the [...]

A top Obama administration management official said on Wednesday that overhauls of federal hiring and performance appraisal systems were critical pieces of a broader plan to make the government more [...]

The federal government will have to tackle big-picture challenges in areas such as information technology and human capital to improve program performance and ultimately address low public trust in government, [...]

A new report shows that the amount federal agencies paid in relocation incentives -- to compensate employees asked to move from one area to another -- nearly doubled from 2007 [...]

The Obama administration says that one of government's key imperatives is beefing up the acquisition workforce with fresh talent. But in his 'Lectern' blog at Federal Computer Week (http://fcw.com/Blogs/Lectern/2010/02/steve-kelman-government-contractor-staff.aspx), Steve [...]

In his stump speech (http://blogs.govexec.com/fedblog/2009/07/john_berrys_speech_at_excellen.php) about the dignity of federal service, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry often mentions the number 2,085. That figure represents the federal civil servants [...]

As political appointees take their posts in the Obama administration, they are eager to receive useful information and insights about operating in Washington. The White House Office of Presidential Personnel [...]

As snow continued to shut down federal agencies in the Washington area this week, a Virginia lawmaker asked the Office of Personnel Management to document productivity savings from telework and [...]

At virtually every turn, government agencies are finding that their domestic missions have expanded to include important international responsibilities. Yet in many instances, federal agencies are not adequately prepared to [...]

If federal managers want taxpayers to appreciate the work their agencies do, don't they need to publicize it? Ever since the Agriculture Department's Office of Public Roads tried to hire [...]

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday unveiled a memo (http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=2778) sent to chief human capital officers earlier this month, outlining a new flexibility that enables agencies to use dual [...]

Conventional wisdom holds that federal managers can't effectively hire, manage and discipline their workers because the government's civil service system hamstrings them with endless rules, regulations, procedures, limitations and requirements. [...]

The federal agencies that rely most heavily on administrative law judges are happy with the candidates for these positions, but would like to be able to test them for specialized [...]

The dawn of the second decade of the 21st century comes in the midst of a transformative time for government. Technological innovations are sweeping society, changing the way we communicate [...]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week unveiled a wide range of changes to how discrimination complaints in federal agencies are filed, processed and decided. The recommendations were the product [...]

The Defense Department has released guidelines on how to assign new employees to pay systems as agencies transition out of the National Security Personnel System. But some employee groups are [...]