DHS plans hiring overhaul

Jeffrey Neal, the personnel chief for the Homeland Security Department, faces the most daunting hiring challenge in the federal government: The department must hire more than 65,700 employees by the end of fiscal 2012 -- the most of any federal agency, according to estimates from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. Bringing that many people onboard will require a hiring overhaul at the department, where component agencies now use multi-varied hiring systems that don't share information. They also don't collect data needed to find and break up logjams in the notoriously slow hiring process.

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