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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! [...]

Iwrote recently elsewhere about Jeremy Hunt's good new book examining unnecessary deaths in the NHS. Someone should write a companion volume about the other end of the scale of seriousness [...]

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 [...]