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Pay Reform for Federal IT
My former beat partner Alyssa Rosenberg has a couple of great stories on <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43207&dcn=todaysnews">civil service reform</a> from Monday's Excellence in Government conference sponsored by <em>Government Executive</em>. In a speech, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry called for a comprehensive overhaul of the federal civil service, from recruitment and hiring to pay and training.
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Structuring Your Résumé
CIO.com <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/497696/Structure_Your_Resume_for_Success">discusses</a> three approaches to structuring your resume so that it's better targeted for the technology job you're applying for.
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Health IT panel recommends 31 IT measures
A workgroup of the Health IT Standards Committee has recommended 31 performance measures for electronic health records.
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Army tests weapons systems geared to the 20-something video gamer
The service salvages high-tech gizmos from its canceled $160 billion Future Combat Systems program to field systems to seven infantry teams by 2014.
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Transparency advocate: Fed Web sites have moral obligation
Vital links can feed discussion, debate and politics, Internet expert tells government and industry leaders.
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Army morale chief to use Web tools to connect with soldiers, their families
Social media increasingly influences how federal employees network, panelists say.
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Filling the Gaps
The Senior Executives Association has launched a survey of GS-14s and 15s or their equivalents to gauge their interest in applying for and serving in the Senior Executive Service, Senior Level and Scientific and Professional positions. The purpose of the survey stems from concerns that many talented and able federal employees do not aspire to positions in the SES, largely because it would mean a loss of locality pay and a guaranteed annual pay raise, increased hours and responsibilities and executive pay overlap with the General Schedule and other personnel systems.
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Leadership Still Trumps Digits
I spent a couple of days last week hanging out with the Army Evaluation Task Force at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. They're testing all kinds of exotic systems and networks key to the Army's future modernization projects, and I wondered if troops in the future will be into battle at the click of a mouse.
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