Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach, testified before the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia, on current and proposed efforts to reform the federal hiring process.
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The ability of government agencies to fulfill their missions is in peril, requiring immediate and thoughtful attention to the recruitment, hiring and retention of talented IT professionals. By investing in IT talent, government will ensure mission success and maintain a safe and prosperous nation.
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Our federal government is hiring tens of thousands of new employees at a steady pace, with job openings available for every interest area and at virtually every agency. Where the Jobs Are, the only comprehensive projection of the federal government’s hiring needs, presents a clear roadmap of these exciting public service possibilities.
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The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton examined the state of the federal cybersecurity workforce by interviewing experts inside and outside of government, and examining public testimony, reports and documents.
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“Leaving Talent on the Table: The Need to Capitalize on High Performing Student Interns” focuses on ways to leverage student interns as a strategic component of workforce planning, recruitment and hiring at the entry levels. For instance, the report examines the significant gap between the private and federal sectors in intern conversion rates—private employers report converting more than half of their interns, whereas federal agencies convert fewer than 7 percent.
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The Partnership for Public Service and Universum USA teamed up to examine the results of Universum USA’s 2008 survey of undergraduates—The Universum IDEAL Employer Survey 2008—to identify the qualities young people seek in an employer. This report details key findings of this research, and there are a number of signs to suggest government’s appeal extends beyond the new president. More importantly, the report offers operational advice to federal recruiters about how they can use this information to do a better job of attracting and retaining top talent.
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This report diagnoses the current challenges facing federal onboarding and presents a model for strategic onboarding, which can serve as a guide for agency reforms. This model outlines a set of overriding principles that underpin effective onboarding programs. It identifies key stakeholders and clarifies their roles in the process, breaking down the onboarding process into five distinct time periods and explaining what agencies should be doing during each phase.
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This report contains the results of an extensive series of interviews, which included most of the current Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs). While these leaders on the human capital front have some progress to report, they also highlight a number of critical concerns and issues that need to be addressed.
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Over the next two years, our largest federal agencies project that they will hire nearly 193,000 new workers for “mission-critical” jobs. While there are other federal jobs that will be filled during this time, including those in clerical and support positions, the jobs listed in this report constitute the bulk of our federal government’s hiring needs.
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This research report provides an end-to-end overview for those charged with the creation of an effective, useful strategic human capital plan.
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