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Wall Street or Walmart: What's in your future?
Feds who retire with special skills and top-secret clearances often move into top jobs on Wall Street, with credit card companies or even back in government, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. But for those stripped of their clearances, life after Uncle Sam may mean a security guard job at a box store ...
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , benefits , retirement , security clearances
Postal bill amendment seeks to cut backlog ahead of USPS retirement 'deluge'
An amendment to a Senate bill aiming to restructure the U.S. Postal Service's financial framework would institute new agency reporting requirements for retiring federal workers in anticipation of a "deluge of retirees" from USPS. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), introduced an amendment last week that requires the Office of Personnel Management to take new steps to chip away at the longstanding backlog of federal retirement claims.
Tags: OPM , USPS , retirement , retirement backlog , Mark Warner , Barbara Mikulski , 21st Century Postal Service Act , Congress , Senate
Rating your mate/date
How would you like it if your spouse or significant other rated your performance, then made his/her findings known to friends and neighbors? In this fantasy world, you would naturally hope your performance would be rated as superior, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. But what if you were rated less-than-satisfactory? Would you vow to get better, or would you really rather not even know?
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , management , performance ratings
Bill makes customer service part of feds' evaluations
The provision is one of many in a new bill passed out of a House committee last week to boost customer service at federal agencies. The Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act — or H.R. 538 — would direct the Office of Management and Budget to set customer service standards and name someone to be a customer relations representative at each agency.
Tags: Henry Cuellar , House , House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , customer service , GPRA Modernization , Federal Drive , management
Educating students about war
Veterans National Education Program Co-founders Andrea Hooper and Bob McMahon talk about the organization's vision and mission.
April 20, 2012(Encore presentation June 8, 2012)
Tags: military , Veterans National Education Program , World War II , Korean War , Vietnam War , Iraq and Afghanistan wars , Andrea Hooper , Bob McMahon , veterans , Fed Access , Derrick Dortch
Public service recognition week
A roundtable discussion of the events at this years' Public Service Recognition Week.
April 20, 2012
Tags: Bill Bransford , Shaw Bransford & Roth , Partnership for Public Service , Public Employees Roundtable , National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration , Public Service Recognition Week , Fed Talk
What do performance ratings really measure?
Is the performance-rating system in your agency rigged? Does a bear shed in the woods? Despite its noble intent, many workers say performance ratings where they work measure just about everything but performance, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , management , performance ratings
Author recounts forgotten history of how women broke government's glass ceilng
Lee Stout, the author of A Matter of Simple Justice: A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp to discuss how and when women started to become full members of the federal workforce.
Tags: Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Emily Kopp , Lee Stout , Richard Nixon , management , diversity
To avoid involuntary separations, Air Force to allow employees to fill buyout-created vacancies
As part of its third round of buyouts and early outs, the Air Force is allowing workers who may see their position go away be transferred to a buyout-created position.
Tags: Michelle LoweSolis , Air Force , budget , Jolie Lee
'Mentoring is an interpersonal process,' expert says
Cary Kemp Larson, an organizational psychologist who helped develop a new mentoring program at the National Science Foundation, talks to The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp about successful mentoring.
Tags: Cary Kemp Larson , National Science Foundation , mentoring , training , Federal Drive , management
