The Federal Government is Making it Easier for You to Get a Job WIth Them

From NextGov | By Brittany
Ballenstedt  
05/12/10 11:44 am ET

The Office of Personnel Management is taking a
tech-friendly approach to the federal
hiring overhaul unveiled by the Obama administration on Tuesday.

Federal employees and the public can find answers to pressing
questions about new policies and procedures on OPM's new hiring reform website.
Updates on the effort also are available on Facebook
and Twitter.

But OPM isn't the sole origin of this tech-savvy strategy. As we
told you yesterday,
the Obama memo also requires the agency to stand up a public-facing
website on all things reform-oriented. The website, which would be
developed in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget and in consultation
with other agencies, would be used to track key human resource data,
including progress on hiring reform implementation. It also would be
used to assist senior agency leaders, hiring managers and human resource
professionals with identifying and replicating best practices within
the federal government for improving new employee quality and the hiring
process, according to the hiring reform directive.

The directive also requires OPM within 90 days to begin establishing a
governmentwide performance review and improvement process for hiring
reform actions, develop a plan to promote diversity in the federal
workforce and evaluate the effectiveness of shared registers used in
filling positions common across multiple agencies. OPM also must develop
a plan to increase the capacity of the USAJOBS website to provide
applicants, hiring managers and human resource professionals with
information to improve recruitment and hiring processes, the directive
states.