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Obama orders contractors to use ‘carryover’ workforce for new jobs

President Barack Obama issued an executive order Jan. 30 that requires a company succeeding another vendor on a services contract to offer jobs to the predecessor's employees

1 million more teleworkers: Can agencies turn new legislation into reality?

About 1 million federal employees could be well on their way to becoming regular teleworkers by next summer. more...
2011 Salary Tables and Related Information

The Office of Personnel Management provides policy leadership and expertise on a variety of Governmentwide pay programs for Federal employees, including the General Schedule (GS), Law Enforcement Officer Pay Schedules, and the Federal Wage System

A guide to navigating the federal hiring process

The good news for the legions of Washington area applicants seeking federal work that the government wants to fill tens of thousands of jobs here. The bad news is that they have to first slog through the federal government's labyrinth hiring system to get one. Reforms announced last week offer some hope for change. more...
Agencies are getting too attached to incumbent contractors, watchdog finds

Federal agencies are failing to maximize opportunities to make contracts competitive, often because of poor management or because officials have grown comfortable with incumbent contractors, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. more...
Agencies could be passing over good job candidates, survey finds

Federal agencies have room for improvement when it comes to assessing applicants for federal jobs, according to a new survey of government officials and observers. more...
Agencies tout successes in slashing hiring time

The Defense Department and other large agencies said Wednesday they are making progress in cutting their hiring processes down to size. more...
Agency aims to play matchmaker with new hiring tool

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is developing a tool that would better match job applicants with positions in federal government, similar to e-Harmony, the online dating site. more...
Army skeptical of fixed-price contracts

The Obama administration might be embracing fixed-priced contracts as the preferred method for purchasing goods and services from the private sector, but that strategy is not necessarily being implemented by the Army. more...
Attrition is high among new workers at many government agencies

As soon as Uncle Sam finds good employees, he loses a bunch of them. more...
Bill places limits on contractor spending

The House on Thursday passed far-reaching campaign reform legislation that would prevent many government contractors and other recipients of federal funds from spending freely on election-year advertisements. more...
Board shuts intern-hiring loophole

A favored hiring authority many agencies use to quickly bring new employees aboard appears doomed. more...
BP oil spill proves fertile ground for procurement

The oil has stopped seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, but federal spending in response to Deepwater Horizon disaster still is flowing. more...
CHCI Human Capital Council: A Call to Action

The Center for Human Capital Innovation (CHCI)’s first ever Human Capital Council meeting proved that two—or twenty—minds are indeed better than one. Notable private and public sector figures came together on Wednesday, April 7, to discuss the current talent management challenges facing the U.S. government more...
CHCI Webcast - What You Need to Know About Hiring Reform

The Firing Line with OPM Deputy Associate Director, Angela Bailey. Who better to question about the real implications of the President’s Hiring Reform than the OPM’s Head of Recruiting Angela Bailey? And who better than Dr. Allen Zeman, President of CHCI and Dr. Elaine Pulakos, COO of PDRI to lead the questioning? We won’t just repeat the President’s Memorandum or the OPM’s Press Release, the purpose of the series is to get to the practical issues and challenges of actually implementing the reform.
CHCI Webcast - What You Need to Know About Hiring Reform

The Firing Line with OPM Deputy Associate Director, Angela Bailey. Who better to question about the real implications of the President’s Hiring Reform than the OPM’s Head of Recruiting Angela Bailey? And who better than Dr. Allen Zeman, President of CHCI and Dr. Elaine Pulakos, COO of PDRI to lead the questioning? We won’t just repeat the President’s Memorandum or the OPM’s Press Release, the purpose of the series is to get to the practical issues and challenges of actually implementing the reform.
Civilian agencies get green light to continue insourcing

The Defense Department might be abandoning efforts to bring contractor jobs back in-house, but don't expect civilian agencies to necessarily follow suit anytime soon. more...
Collaboration-minded feds see barriers to working together

Earlier this year, a human resources specialist at a federal agency put out a call to her comrades at other agencies: Could someone share a competency model -- a list of expected skills and abilities -- for staff attorneys? more...
Competitive hiring not ideal for college grads, officials say

Competitive hiring for government jobs leaves recent college graduates behind, federal officials said on Friday. During a public hearing hosted by the Office of Personnel Management, chief human capital officers said continued use of excepted service authorities and a simpler, faster hiring process that focuses on job competencies rather than experience are the best ways to recruit college graduates. more...
Congress again suspends intel pay system; OMB objects

The White House today objected to Congress' move to extend the suspension of a controversial pay-for-performance system for intelligence employees. more...
Congress passes measure to fund agencies through Dec. 3

Congress approved a stopgap measure early today to keep the federal government running after the new fiscal year starts at midnight Friday. The measure funds agencies at fiscal 2010 funding levels until Dec. 3. more...
Contract Overload: GAO finds continued problems with MACs

The proliferation of multiple award and government wide contracts are costing agencies millions of dollars and wasting time of contracting officers, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. more...
Contract spending projected to dip 5% in ‘11, report shows

The president's fiscal 2011 budget request includes $36 billion less for contractors, a 5 percent decline from the current year, according to a report released on Wednesday. more...
Contracting spending cuts coming in 2011, study says

Contractors will get less government work in fiscal 2011 and government spending on contracts won't rebound anytime soon, a new report says. President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget request includes $36 billion less for contractors, a 5 percent decline from $756 billion this year, according to a study by the McLean, Va., market research firm FedSources. more...
Defense falls behind on workforce planning efforts

The Defense Department is lagging in the human capital planning process, leaving its leaders without the information necessary to develop its civilian workforce, according to a new report. more...
Deficit Commission Seeks to Trim 200,000 Feds, Freeze Pay

The co-chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission on Nov. 10 issued a set of draft recommendations to rebalance the federal budget which includes the elimination of 200,000 federal jobs over the next decade and a three-year federal salary/benefits freeze. more...
Department Hires Acquisitions Workers to Help Reforms

The Defense Department is making strides toward acquisition reform and budget reductions, starting with the buildup of its federal acquisitions work force. The department created the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and has hired more than 3,000 employees since the end of March to improve its purchasing processes, John Roth, deputy comptroller for programs and budgets, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s national security subcommittee. more...
DoD urges more training for requirements writers

Top Pentagon arms buyers have heard the calls to improve specification development for weapon programs and support services, and are emphasizing better training for the acquisition work force. more...
EIG 2010 CONFERENCE SERIES

Over the past 14 years, Excellence in Government has earned a reputation as the key learning opportunity for government innovators. This year, dramatic change is coming to government and agency leaders must be able to adapt strategically. more...
Employees report satisfaction with work, supervisors

A now-annual survey of federal employee attitudes shows most employees are satisfied with key aspects of their jobs, including workload, management and work-life balance. more...
Farewell Federal Essays. Hello Assessments

Monday will mark an event so momentous it took a presidential order to make it happen. On Nov. 1 the Office of Personnel Management — the U.S. government’s HR arm — will no longer require written essays to apply for a job. more...
FDA launches performance measurement system

Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Jeffrey Zients is lauding the Food and Drug Administration's launch of a new system to measure the performance of more than 100 program offices. more...
Fed Disability Hiring Hampered by Attitudes, Low Expectations

Federal agencies need to fundamentally change a cultural atmosphere that holds people with disabilities as poor hiring candidates if the government is to meet its goal of increasing the employment of the disabled, according to a Government Accountability Office focus group. more...
Federal "in-sourcing" plan draws mixed reviews

As contracting advocates ready for a fight over the government's policies to move more work in-house, at least one local company is taking an enterprising approach. Adecco Government Solutions of Alexandria is talking with the federal government about ways it can assist agencies staff positions without drawing from contractors. more...
Federal Jobs Give Hope To Entry-Level Job Seekers

Long lines of job seekers in dark suits and high heels wound around massive columns at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Hopeful applicants clutched portfolios stuffed with resumes and talking points, waiting patiently for a few minutes of face time with government recruiters. more...
Federal pay raise still up in the air

Uncertainty remains in the debate over whether federal employees will receive a 2011 pay raise as Congress begins its lame-duck session this week. more...
Federal retirements hit seven-year low in 2009

As the economy collapsed last year, federal retirements dropped to their lowest level in seven years, according to statistics released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management. more...
Federal workers' compensation payments called wasteful

The law that compensates federal workers for lost pay and medical expenses due to job-related injuries or disease is vulnerable to fraud and should be audited by the Government Accountability Office, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said on Tuesday. more...
Federal workers' pay soars, analysis finds

Twice as many federal employees are earning $150,000 than just two years ago, according to a new analysis from USA Today. more...
Filner: VA Finds Problems but Cannot Fix Them

The Veterans Affairs Department is good at finding waste and inefficiency, but it should act faster to fix these problems, lawmakers said at a Wednesday congressional oversight hearing
Fiscal panel chairs propose three-year civilian pay freeze, hiring slowdown

The chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission are proposing major cuts in federal agency workforces and budgets, as well as a three-year pay freeze for civilian employees, according to draft documents released on Wednesday. more...
Fiscal panel reinforces pay freeze, changes to federal benefits

The panel charged with reforming federal spending on Wednesday reinforced its support for freezing federal pay, along with changes to employees' health and retirement benefits. more...
Flexible Work: It Works in Government - Here's How

The Human Services and Public Health Department of Hennepin County, in Minneapolis, Minn., is engaged in about as radical an experiment with flexible work as exists. more...
Full disclosure required for military mentors

After pressure from two key senators, the Pentagon has reversed course and will require that the retired generals and admirals it hires as consultants file public, not confidential, financial disclosure statements, according to letters from Congress and the Defense Department. more...
GAO outlines shortcomings in DoD's civilian work-force plan

The Defense Department's strategic plan for managing its civilian work force is still falling short and could make it tougher to rein in expenses and increase efficiencies, the Government Accountability Office said today. more...
Health insurance choices can ease the pain of the pay freeze

Federal employees worried about how next year's pay freeze will affect their finances should stay focused on ways to save money on health insurance during this year's open season, according to one adviser. more...
Hiring reform inches forward

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 hiring assessments, officials said on Wednesday. more...
Hiring reforms could mean big changes for veterans

The Office of Personnel Management's sweeping hiring reforms could mean big things for U.S. veterans. Right now, only three government agencies hire significant numbers of veterans: the Department of Veteran Affairs, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. more...
House bill proposes third year for pay freeze

A bill introduced Jan. 7 would freeze federal employees' pay for a third year, cut the federal work force by 10 percent and enact several other proposals from the White House's deficit reduction commission. more...
House votes against pay freeze for feds

The House Friday afternoon voted down a Republican proposal to cut federal employees' 2011 pay raise. The 227-to-183 vote against the pay freeze was applauded by federal unions and other employee groups, which said it would have unnecessarily hurt federal employees at a time when the government is facing many challenges. more...
How HUD cut is hiring time in half

Earlier this year, the Housing and Urban Development Department was the poster child of the government's dysfunctional hiring system. more...
Hoyer: Feds shouldn't look for lower health premiums anytime soon

Two proposals to lower health insurance costs for employees and retirees are unlikely to advance until the economy and the government's fiscal outlook improve, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said today. more...
HR execs call for more flexibility in hiring

Agencies need more hiring flexibilities to get around the current cumbersome competitive service process, a panel of senior human resources leaders said Friday. more...
In pay freeze era, focus could shift to measuring performance

Federal employees for months have been at the center of an intense debate over the meaning of fair pay. more...
In pay freeze era, focus could shift to measuring performance

Federal employees for months have been at the center of an intense debate over the meaning of fair pay. more...
Industry groups urge changes in contract reforms in DoD bill

Provisions in the House and Senate 2011 defense authorization bills could inadvertently increase government spending and limit competition for defense contracts, a coalition of eight trade associations warned lawmakers on Wednesday. more...
Intel agencies to get more oversight

Intelligence agencies will get more scrutiny from auditors and more cost-control measures placed on major acquisitions under a new intelligence authorization bill passed by Congress on Wednesday. more...
Interim payments rise for nearly one-third of recent retirees

The Office of Personnel Management said Jan. 6 it has increased interim payments to almost one-third of recent retirees awaiting their full pensions. more...
Keeping the best: Tips for retaining a talented workforce

Agencies and the media alike devote significant time and resources talking about and attracting the next generation of federal employees. Often overlooked are today's federal workers. more...
Labor law violators raking in federal contracts

At least 15 federal contractors have been cited in the past five years for failing to follow wage, health and safety, or collective bargaining laws, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. more...
Labor leaders complain of being cut out of agency decisions

Union leaders said this morning that they are being frozen out of decisions that are intended to be made in labor-management partnership forums, and that their members are starting to sour on the process. more...
Latest pay study doesn't pass the smell test

The Office of Personnel Management claims the pay advantage enjoyed by private-sector workers over federal employees grew to 24 percent in 2010, two percentage points higher than in 2009. more...
Management, labor leaders promise more telework

For years, federal officials have pledged to increase the use of telework, but with little progress. Only 103,000 federal employees — less than 9 percent of those eligible — teleworked at least once a month in 2008, according to the government's latest report. more...
Managers struggle to reverse understaffing

The federal government's latest survey of its work force appears to show growing concerns about insufficient staffing and other resources and a work force that may not have the right knowledge and skills to do the job. more...
Meet the world's next growth engine

While the developed world grapples with the mass retirement of its baby boom generation, India is just welcoming its boomers into the workforce. more...
More federal workers' pay tops $150K

The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Obama took office, a USA Today analysis finds. more...
MSPB Report Says Agencies Value Technical Skills Over Leadership Abilities

Agencies hire too many front-line managers based on their technical skills and should instead focus on promoting those with good leaderships skills who can motivate the federal employees they supervise, according to a new Merit System Protection Board report. more...
New Plans For Federal Hiring

The Obama administration's plan to redo a federal hiring process that has long been mired in the muck of bureaucracy and redundancy is nearing completion. more...
Ninth Annual Report to the President on Hispanic Employment in the Federal Government

The OPM claims to have made strong progress on Hispanic hiring in the President’s first year in office. more...
Obama administration announces two-year federal pay freeze

Federal employees will not receive any pay increases for two years, Obama administration officials announced on Monday. more...
Obama calls on agencies to reduce on-the-job injuries

The Forest Service can be a dangerous place to work. Employees battle raging forest fires, regularly fly helicopters and airplanes, and work in difficult terrain that is home to wild animals. All of that adds up to one of the highest workplace injury and illness rates in the federal government — more than 10 percent of the agency's 32,622 employees reported an injury or illness in fiscal 2009. more...
Obama Freezes Locality Pay at 2010 Levels

President Obama announced that he is freezing federal civilian locality pay rates for 2011 at this year’s levels. more...
Obama Orders Agencies to Increase Hiring of Disabled into Federal Workforce

Reviving a Clinton-era hiring goal, President Obama on July 26 signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to increase employment of people with disabilities by adding 100,000 disabled employees over the next five years. more...
Obama replaces intern program with new hiring programs

The Federal Career Intern Program, a popular and controversial hiring authority that managers have used to quickly hire tens of thousands of new workers, will end March 1, according to an executive order signed yesterday by President Obama. more...
Obama's 2-year pay freeze plan angers employee groups

President Obama today proposed a two-year freeze on federal employees' pay rates as part of an effort to reduce the government's massive budget deficit. more...
OPM enlists outside experts to determine federal-private pay gap

Government statistics on the gap between federal and private-sector salaries "have a credibility problem," Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry says. So he's enlisted outside experts to help come up with a better way to determine the pay differences. more...
OPM hosts CHCO hiring reforms summit today

The Office of Personnel Management played host to the Chief Human Capital Officers from all federal agencies, as officials hold a summit meeting on Wednesday to discuss the new executive order signed by the President on Tuesday. That order mandates sweeping changes in the federal hiring practices, designed to make it easier for people to apply for jobs in the federal government. more...
OPM looks to boost hiring of military spouses

Husbands and wives of servicemembers disabled or killed in the line of duty would be eligible indefinitely for noncompetitive appointment to government jobs, according to a proposed rule to be published in Thursday's Federal Register. more...
OPM pushes bill to allow agencies to share job candidates

Office of Personnel Director John Berry Wednesday called on lawmakers to pass a law that will enable agencies to more easily share qualified job candidates with each other. Berry told a House panel that such a change would be an important part of the hiring reforms the administration unveiled last week. more...
OPM wants to settle the fed salary debate

Office of Personnel Management director John Berry wants to once and for all settle the question of whether federal employees are overpaid compared to the private sector. more...
OPM's Berry vows to fix any problems with hiring registers

Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry today reaffirmed his commitment to a struggling centralized hiring register program and said he has no intention of canceling it. more...
Pay freeze won't halt many performance raises

The federal pay scale freeze won't quash all raises. Some performance-based raises under alternative pay systems are approved, according to a Dec. 30 memo from the Office of Personnel Management. more...
Pay will go up for many, despite Obama's proposed freeze

The federal pay freeze proposed Monday by President Obama will not be absolute. more...
Pentagon needs rationale for hiring civilian leaders, GAO says

With budgetary pressures affecting defense for the first time in more than a decade, the Defense Department is inadequately documenting to Congress its need to boost hiring of senior civilian leaders, the Government Accountability Office asserted in a Nov. 4 report. more...
Pilot program will help small businesses compete for large contracts

The Small Business Administration plans to award up to $5 million in grant funding as part of a pilot program to assist undersized firms competing for large contracts, the agency announced on Tuesday. more...
Poor Training at Fault in WVA Mine Disaster?

A new government audit, published just days before 25 workers were killed in a West Virginia coal mine explosion, says 56 percent of veteran inspectors failed to attend required retraining courses during a two-year training cycle that started in 2006. more...
Postal Service announces hiring freeze

The U.S. Postal Service is freezing hiring and promotions in its Washington headquarters and local field offices as a cost-savings measure, the agency has announced. more...
Postal Service contract talks up against new Tuesday deadline

With contract talks with two major unions having officially expired over the weekend, the U.S. Postal Service is facing a stalemate with the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association but remains in negotiations with the American Postal Workers Union under pressure of a revised deadline set for noon on Tuesday. more...
Postal Service embraces reform legislation

U.S. Postal Service officials and employee groups said Thursday they support a Senate bill that would provide greater flexibility to set alternate delivery schedules and change pension funding requirements, both of which would help stabilize finances at the struggling agency. more...
Postal Service thins senior executive ranks

Incoming Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced a series of cuts and reforms for postal operations, including trimming the U.S. Postal Service's senior executives ranks by 16 percent, closing an area office in Memphis, and "flattening" the mail carrier's organizational structure. more...
Postal Service to cut 7,500 positions this month, 30,000 by end of year

The U.S. Postal Service will announce March 25 a downsizing of approximately 7,500 supervisory, managerial and postmaster positions. more...
Postal Service to cut 7,500 postmaster, supervisor jobs

The U.S. Postal Service will cut 7,500 jobs through early retirements and a reduction in force, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Friday. About 2,000 of those could be postmaster positions, with the remainder coming from line supervisors and administrators. more...
Postal Service to manage losses with more workforce cuts

The U.S. Postal Service lost $8.5 billion in fiscal 2010 despite significant work hour reductions, and the agency could find itself out of cash in 2011, officials said on Friday. more...
Posting all fed contracts online alarms contractors

The Obama administration said it expects to begin posting online the full texts of federal contracts, task orders and delivery orders as a way to advance government transparency, kicking off a public debate on how and whether that should be done. more...
President Obama Reinforces Move to a More Flexible Workforce

The President referred to the days that snow forced federal offices in Washington to close as an example of why the public and private sectors should adopt some alternative arrangements, such as telework, for their employees. more...
President Obama Reinforces Move to a More Flexible Workforce

The President referred to the days that snow forced federal offices in Washington to close as an example of why the public and private sectors should adopt some alternative arrangements, such as telework, for their employees. more...
Presidential Memorandum -- Improving the Federal Recruitment and Hiring Process

President Obama calls on executive departments and agencies (agencies) to overhaul the way they recruit and hire the federal government civilian workforce, saying "... the complexity and inefficiency of today's Federal hiring process deters many highly qualified individuals from seeking and obtaining jobs in the Federal Government." more...
Privatization battle centers on definition of federal employee

The government's largest labor union is challenging an Air Force pilot program to privatize food service jobs at six bases across the country. more...
Proposal continues crackdown on recruitment and other bonuses

The Office of Personnel Management on Friday proposed rules aimed at helping federal agencies better control costs of incentive payments to recruit, relocate and retain talented employees. more...
Recovery.gov a model for transparency

Of the $814 billion in government stimulus spending, there's $18 million that could forever change the way government spends money. more...
Remaining NSPS employees get average 2.26 percent raises

As many as 54,000 employees still covered by the Defense Department's National Security Personnel System this month could receive performance-based pay raises or bonuses averaging 2.26 percent of all employees' salaries, according to a Dec. 27 memo obtained by Federal Times. more...
Remedies beyond the pay freeze

Two years? Three years? Complete freeze? Partial freeze? It seems certain that pay for federal employees will be frozen in some form. more...
Report: Better assessments needed of job candidates

An applicant for a marine biologist job at the federal government once made it onto a list of qualified candidates by claiming he was "very experienced" in relevant research, according to a new report. more...
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications

With the economy inching out of the worst downturn in a generation, working for the feds has gained cachet as a source of stable employment in uncertain times. he government needs to fill 270,000 "mission-critical" -- non-clerical, non-support -- positions by 2012, an increase of 40 percent over the previous three years, according to a study last year by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that promotes government service. The feds employ about 2 million civilians, not including U.S. Postal Service workers. more...
Say Goodbye to KSAs?

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 said on Tuesday. more...
Senate deals another blow to efforts to freeze federal pay

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. more...
Senate energy bill faces job-creation doubts

Long-awaited legislation designed to reduce fossil-fuel use, curb carbon emissions and impose tighter restrictions on offshore drilling was introduced in the Senate on Wednesday, although the bill faces scrutiny from Republicans and moderate Democrats concerned about its economic impact. more...
Senior acquisition officials question procurement policy direction

Senior federal acquisition officials do not believe that many of the signature procurement policy changes the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have implemented in recent years are adding significant value to the government's mission, according to a new report from a pair of industry groups. more...
Senior executives see smaller pay raises

Declining pay raises and bonuses for federal executives could deter General Schedule employees from applying to the Senior Executive Service, according to a former SES member. more...
Senior executives' raises drop to five-year low, report shows

Senior Executive Service members' average pay raises in 2009 were the lowest in at least five years, according to a report from the Office of Personnel Management. more...
Should more agencies use business boards?

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates needed an independent look at Pentagon waste, he didn't have to look far. In May, he asked the Defense Business Board, a 25-member federal advisory committee that helps with management and governance issues, for suggestions on where to cull about $100 billion in savings over five years that could instead be spent on weaponry and other areas. more...
State, USAID outline plans to increase hiring, improve training

Some State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development employees would have to complete expanded training programs to be eligible for promotion, under a new four-year plan. more...
Survey finds more satisfaction, less cooperation

Federal employees' overall satisfaction, confidence in their senior leaders and confidence in the performance appraisal process have grown over the last two years, according to a survey released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management. more...
Telework bill awaits Obama's signature

The House of Representatives voted 254-152 on Thursday to expand telework opportunities for federal employees. more...
Telework tool: A DOD innovation goes wide

Agencies could soon find themselves managing more teleworkers: The Senate passed a bill Sept. 30 setting a deadline for determining employees’ eligibility to telework. more...
Trends in Government Human Capital Management: How Recent Changes Will Impact IT Firms

Federal and State Government agencies are in the midst of significant, steady changes. Technology innovation has fundamentally changed the way governments operate. Today federal and state governments are powered by, and are totally dependent on, technology and a well trained IT workforce. Federal budgets have grown, transparency is in vogue, performance measurement is often assumed, and the new administration is interested in growing the size of the federal workforce through new job growth and in-sourcing. more...
TSA using pizza boxes to recruit new workers

Federal agencies often head to college campuses, job fairs or buy newspaper classified ads to announce new job openings. But the Transportation Security Administration is reaching out with pepperoni and cheese. more...
TSP launches automatic enrollment for new hires

As of Aug. 1, all new civilian employees are enrolled automatically in the Thrift Savings Plan, the federal government's retirement program. more...
Unions to managers: Give employees a bigger voice in decisions

Agency managers are not doing enough to engage employees or their union representatives ahead of time in decisions that affect their daily work, members of the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations said on Wednesday. more...
Unions vie for TSA hearts and minds

The two biggest federal employee unions are preparing to battle for exclusive representation of TSA's workforce. more...
Voters back steep cuts in federal payroll

The presidential debt commission's recommendation to downsize the federal payroll by 10 percent during the next decade wins a landslide two-thirds approval from voters, according to a poll released Monday. more...
Weighing Costs, Companies Favor Temporary Help

Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor experts that temporary employees will become a larger, more entrenched part of the work force.

Why so many SES jobs go unfilled

It takes special talents to become a member of the Senior Executive Service. Not only must an aspiring executive have exceptional technical skills in his chosen field, but he must know how to lead others, manage complicated programs, and in some cases oversee massive budgets. more...

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This report discusses acquisition and contracting improvement plans and how to save money and improve government through better contracting.

Military Outsourcing: A Case Study of the Effects of Civilianization on Sailors’ Retention Intentions

This paper examines the impact of the structural change brought on by civilianization of the Navy on the attitudes and behavioral intentions of active duty sailors. This study examines the degree to which sailors’ level of contact with civilian mariners (CIVMARs), and social comparisons with civilian mariners, affects their job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and retention intentions, as these have been identified as critical social-psychological variables in predicting retention behavior.

The State of Federal Contracting: Opportunities and Challenges for Strengthening Government Procurement and Acquisition Policies

QCA employers are actively engaged in developing Green Jobs training and workforce development programs.

Privacy Impact Assessment for theFederal Protective Service Information Support Tracking System (FISTS) Contract Suitability Module

The FPS Information Support Tracking System (FISTS) is a web-based system used to input, manage, and track information regarding the suitability of contracted service personnel within secure Federal facilities, contract guard certifications, and physical security in Federal facilities

Acquisition and Contracting Improvement Plans and PilotsSaving Money and Improving Government

President Obama has stated that taxpayers deserve to have their dollars spent wisely. To help instill a new sense of responsibility when it comes to spending the taxpayers’ dollars, he has charged federal departments and agencies with saving $40 billion annually by Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 through terminating unnecessary contracts,

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Today an increasing amount of the government’s work is not performed directly by the federal workforce, but rather by a large and less visible workforce of employees working for government contractors.

Six Practical Steps to Improve Contracting

Contracting issues will be on the front burner of the Obama administration, and the stakes are high. The Administration has already committed to greater transparency, stronger ethics, more competition, and rethinking the roles of contractors and government employees.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Recruiting “Facebook Captains

This article debates the usefulness of FaceBook for politicians. It also gives the example of San Francisco Mayor and California Gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom who has more than 56,000 fans on FaceBook & has high level of interaction with them.

OMB says agencies must boost competition in contracting

This article points out the urgency of civilian agencies to draw up workforce acquisition strategies and consider new ways to promote more competition in their contracts.
Acquisition jobs a tough sell to would-be feds

This article describes how bureaucracy and lack of prestige in the civil service drive away the potential hires.

Acquisition jobs offer few incentives

This article points out the fewer and fewer incentives for federal acquisition employees to continue their careers in their jobs.

6 core capabilities that acquisition workers need

This article discusses the six core capabilities needed by government recruiters for the effective operation of government.

Why Federal Contractors Will Continue to Thrive

This article discusses the reasons federal contracting is thriving.

The Role of the Contracting Officer

This article talks about the role of the contracting officer in federal procurement.

How contractors can help agencies save money

This article present ideas about how the contracting community can find creative ways to meet the Office of Management and Budget's(OMB) goal of reducing contract spending.

Gov't Outlines Plan for Contractor Performance Database

This article is a study of a comprehensive database developed by the government to track the performance of federal contractors.

Federal Contracting System In Serious Disrepair

This article investigates the state of the federal contracting system.

Managing the total workforce

This article throws light on the percentage of the American workforce comprised of contingent labor (freelance, temporary or self-employed) and its high growth of up to 40 percent of the workforce by 2019, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates.

New OMB guidance calls for better contract planning

This article describes the role of new OMB guidance for better contract planning and improving competition and performance.

Judge allows E-Verify rule to go into effect

This article talks about the Homeland Security Department's new E-Verify system and the new rules that are in effect which require the contractors to certify the employment eligibility of their workers.

Thousands of intel jobs being insourced

This article discusses the trend of insourcing thousands of contractor-performed jobs by government's 16 intelligence agencies to federal employees in order to reduce the community's reliance on contractors.

Agencies identify $19 Billion in Contract Savings

This article examines the plans submitted to the Office of Management and Budget(OMB) by 24 federal agencies which will result in more than $19 billion in contract workforce acquisition-related savings.

Smart idea? Index Federal Worker Salaries to the Private Sector

This article reveals the differences between the salaries of a private sector employee versus the Federal worker and the discrepancy between them.

Thousands of Retirees Returning to Old Jobs

This article discusses the problem of Federal retirees who aren't allowed to return to work in government and collect their full pay — instead their pay is reduced by the amount of their retirement annuity.

The State of the Federal Workforce

This paper discusses the state of the Federal Workforce and the varied challenges in managing such a massively diverse and extended group work

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