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Supercommittee Tracker
Track recommendations on federal pay, benefits and retirement made to the supercommittee by top Congressional leaders and the White House.
Tags: supercommittee , management , budget , Congress , House , Senate , Elijah Cummings , Joe Lieberman , Susan Collins , Barack Obama , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , pay and benefits , retirement , workforce , deficit , Jolie Lee , Jack Moore
OPM says USAJobs recovered from 'death spiral'
Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry said the federal jobs website USAJobs.gov is headed in the right direction after a rough debut three weeks ago. OPM has added server capacity and refined features to make the site easier to use. OPM Director John Berry said the agency's response is an example of "government working." But OPM now faces a congressional hearing and public outrage over the botched rollout.
Tags: John Berry , OPM , Kathy Dillaman , USAJobs , workforce , technology , Monster Government Solutions , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , John Kerry , Emily Kopp
Student ambassadors raising interest in federal work
Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach at Partnership for Public Service, discusses how students are sharing their experience working for government to recruit the next generation of feds.
Tags: Tim McManus , Partnership for Public Service , In Depth , Federal Service Student Ambassadors , workforce ,
Sen. Kerry calls for private vendor to manage USAJobs site
Following the troubled launch of the revamped USAJobs.gov, the government's jobs portal, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), is renewing his call for a private contractor to manage the site. He has also asked Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel to investigate and intervene.
Tags: John Kerry , USAJobs.gov , OPM , workforce , Steven VanRoekel
OPM: USAJobs glitches stabilized
After a rocky start, the Office of Personnel Management says USAJobs.gov, the federal government's jobs portal, is making progress, citing 1.8 million successful log-ins in the last two weeks.
Tags: Federal Drive , OPM , Matthew Perry , technology , Jack Moore , USAJobs 3.0 , workforce ,
Unions once again urge supercommittee to save feds' pay, benefits
Lawmakers charged with reducing the federal deficit should look to contractors' compensation rather than reduce government workers' pay and benefits, a coalition of federal unions and management associations wrote in a letter to supercommittee leaders.
Tags: Susan Collins , Joe Lieberman , pay and benefits , Federal-Postal Coalition , supercommittee , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Congress , budget , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , Emily Kopp , deficit , workforce
OPM working 'around the clock' to fix USAJobs.gov
The Office of Personnel Management is scrambling to buy more server capacity after record traffic overwhelmed the new version of the USAJobs.gov website. OPM Director John Berry said the site now is serving 94 percent of users. But he acknowledged that's "cold comfort for those whose applications aren't getting through." Agency IT staff is working around the clock to fix the problem, he added.
Tags: technology , workforce , OPM , John Berry , Federal Labor Management Relations , Federal Labor Management Relations Council , Emily Kopp
USA Jobs 3.0 up and running again
An Office of Personnel Management spokesperson said 94 percent of users can access the site, while 6 percent may get a message to try back later.
Tags: USA Jobs 3.0 , OPM , workforce , technology , Jolie Lee
VA funds ideas to help disabled vets get jobs
VA will test the use of the ideas in the agency's Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) Program, according to a VA release.
Tags: VA , employment , VAi2 , innovation , management , best practices , workforce ,
New OPM guidance aims to help senior executives 'hit the ground running'
John Palguta, vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss OPM's new onboarding model. The framework aims to help senior executives transition to new positions more smoothly.
Tags: OPM , Senior Executive Service , workforce , best practices , John Palguta , Partnership for Public Service , Federal Drive
