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Hiring managers look to outsiders
Trends show federal government looks to industry for new upper-level hires
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Agencies expect to invest in new financial systems
Input report highlights the importance of the Financial Management Line of Business initiative to OMB
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Bush nominates new DHS undersecretary for management
Elaine Duke became DHS' first deputy undersecretary for management last October.
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Letter: Agencies need to make older workers happy, too
A reader says young professionals aren’t the only ones driving changes in the government workforce.
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Letter: Craft an organizational change strategy and test it
Change is enabled by carefully crafting strategies (including, but not limited to communication and compensation) to help employees and organizations to shift their mind-sets.
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Agencies get ready to reduce Internet gateways
They must report to OMB plans for cutting external connections.
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The key to cross-agency information sharing: habit
Strong leaders are required to institute information sharing policies, but the long-term way to ensure the practice stays in place is habit.
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FOSE panelists: Government needs new approaches to hiring
Agencies must adopt nontraditional ways of recruiting and retaining employees, a group of experts said at FOSE 2008.
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Agencies grapple with search and discovery
Google's magic doesn't work in enterprise search, agencies find.
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Letter: A collapsing GSA needs to listen and lead
To date I have met no one at GSA genuinely interested in feedback from clients or industry on how to take charge of the acquisition arena as they could well do again. But even if they did listen, they would surely be unable to synthesize and manage the data and effectively respond.
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Letter: Why shouldn't OPM employees like their jobs?
When you are:[Getting] raises and sometimes even bonuses [that] are almost automatic, and you cannot be fired, what's not to like?
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Letter: Strict hiring policies limit talent pool
There are some exceptionally talented and dedicated individuals who have not had previous government experience. Hiring policies restrictive to those who have had previous experience does not serve the needs of the employer.
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GAO: DHS' biometrics strategy lacking
Unique Identity is not complete without a strategy for verifying the exit of individuals from the United States, a new report states.
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Maine licenses and IDs still not good enough for DHS
Maine, the only state that has not been granted an extension for implementing the controversial Real ID regulations, has until 5 pm on April 2 to commit to making changes.
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Sun founder extols open source for government
Scott McNealy told government officials at FOSE that open-source software is their best path into the future.
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IAC gives awards to five projects for improvement
Agencies demonstrated improvements in organizational performance
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Chertoff grants S.C. Real ID extension
South Carolina's governor said he did not plan to seek an extension because the state legislature opposed the ID card program.
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DOD lifts restrictions on Interior's acquisition services
The department has made improvements, said Shay Assad, director of Defense procurement, acquisition policy and strategic sourcing.
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South Carolina defiant on Real ID
On the deadline for requesting an extension for implementing the program, the governor says the state has no plans to ask for one and hopes the standard driver's licenses will continue to be accepted as ID.
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