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Mentoring event serves up career advice in a flash

Feds looking for career guidance and motivation are increasingly going outside of their agencies to find it. Employees from 20 agencies attended a recent "flash mentoring" session hosted by the Office of Personnel Management's HR University. More seasoned human resources professionals served as mentors.

Tags: workforce , CHCO Council , OPM , Kathryn Medina , mentoring , HR University , GSA , John Berry , Stephanie Diamond , NASA , training , Emily Kopp

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HR University showing worth, expanding after first year

The government's training portal has nearly 10,000 users. The HR University now offers college-accredited classes and in-person "flash mentoring" events. The Office of Personnel Management and the Chief Human Capital Officers Council launched the portal last year as a way to save agencies money on professional development training.

Tags: management , Kathryn Medina , John Berry , OPM , CHCO Council , HR University , training , workforce , GSA , Emily Kopp

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Senator Ted Kaufman's goal: doing better transitions

Legislation builds on Bush-to-Obama transition success.

Tags: transition , Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Co , management , Senator Ted Kaufman , Max Stier , Clay Johnson , John Podesta ,

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Ask the CHCO: GSA

Gail Lovelace
Chief Human Capital Officer
July 29, 2009

Tags: mngt , P&B , Ask the CHCO , GSA ,

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Rebooting federal recruiting

The nuts and bolts of making federal government service "cool". Representatives from the U.S. Army, the General Services Administration, and a government contractor who helps other agencies with employment outreach discuss their ideas for updating federal government recruiting.

Tags: mngt , U.S. Army , Susan Duncan , GSA , AVUE Technologies Corp

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