How do I get that federal job?
At last count, there are 105 of these…but agencies only use a handful of them to fill positions.
What is a hiring authority?
It's an acronym listing a group of technical professions in short supply within the federal workforce; it's also a smaller version of a branch.
What is STEM?
Quantitative or qualitative data used to track progress toward achieving agency goals or objectives, or to assess the overall performance of a program, operation, or project.
What is performance information?
The capital of this western state means “peace” in Hebrew – Shalom.
What is Salem, Oregon?
Any joint activity intended to produce more public value than could be produced when the organizations act alone.
What is collaboration? or What is the definition of collaboration?
These include members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 93 U.S. Marshals, and approximately 1,200 other federal positions.
What are political appointments?
Managers want this for their employees; it's also the time before you say “I do”.
What is engagement?
Enacted in January 2019, this Act established a more comprehensive and integrated approach for the federal government to build and use different types of evidence.
What is the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Making Act, or Evidence Act?
An acronym referring to financial leverage and the agency responsible for enforcing civil service laws and regulations?
What is OPM – for “Other People’s Money” and the “Office of Personnel Management”?
GPRAMA requires OMB to ensure the effective operation of this single website that presents a cohesive picture of all federal programs, individual agency performance, and governmentwide performance.
What is Performance.gov?
These principles are worthwhile because they support, among other things, the fair treatment of employees in all aspects of their employment, and the protection of employees against reprisal for whistleblowing.
What are merit system principles?
Experienced by agencies when an insufficient number of individuals is available to complete necessary work and/or the agency lacks individuals with the appropriate skills, abilities, or behaviors to successfully perform work.
What are skills gaps?
Regularly scheduled, structured meetings used by agency leaders and managers to review and analyze data on progress toward key performance goals and other management-improvement priorities.
What are "data-driven reviews"?
It's the shallowest of the Great Lakes and a mountain of human capital data.
What is Erie or EHRI?
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) coordinates with agencies to establish four-year crosscutting goals—covering a limited number of mission and management areas across the federal government.
What are Cross-Agency Priority Goals? What are CAP goals?
The year both the General Schedule (the classification system that defines federal positions) and the National Basketball Association was established.
What is 1949?
Term that defines the design, construction, development, and maintenance of facilities, information and communication technology, programs, and services so that all people, including people with disabilities, can fully and independently use them.
What is accessibility?
This former House speaker was the lead sponsor of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Making Act.
Who is Paul Ryan?
The name of the Marx Brother who routinely spoke with a phony Italian accent as well a senior agency official responsible for all human resources management issues and is charged with selecting, developing, training, and managing a high-quality, productive workforce.
What is Chico or CHCO (Chief Human Capital Officer)?
Examples include interagency groups (such as task forces, councils, and committees), co-location, and collaboration technologies (such as shared databases and web portals)
What are interagency mechanisms for collaboration?
Consisting of the Internship Program, the Recent Graduates Program, and the Presidential Management Fellows Program, this program was designed to promote federal employment for students and recent graduates.
What is the Pathways Program?
A type of workforce that ensures the right people, with the right skills, are assigned to the right roles at the right time and at the right cost. This workforce also can be quickly reconfigured to suit an organization’s needs.
What is an agile workforce?
Codified in 2011, the person in this position is responsible for improving the management and performance of their agency.
Who is the Chief Operating Officer or COO?
The square root of 1,849 AND the integer following 74, as well as the two chapters of the U.S. Code governing federal personnel management.
What is 43 and 75?
This OMB guidance provides information to agencies on implementation of GPRAMA, in addition to the preparation, submission, and execution of the budget.
What is Circular A-11?