Federal Manager's Daily Report

Among the information included in the OPM plan for the future of the Hiring Excellence program are results of this year’s survey of federal managers by the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, which found that overall satisfaction with the hiring process rated an average 7.4 out of 10, up from 7.3 in 2015.

Within that average, there was a mix of mostly modest changes. For example, 57 percent said that a sufficient number of qualified applicants were referred for hiring consideration, down from 59 percent in 2014 but the same as in 2015. Sixty-one percent said the applicants who were referred had the skills to perform the job, up from 60 percent in 2015 but down from 62 percent in 2014.

Satisfaction with the assessment tools used to evaluate applicants was 57 percent, the same as in 2014 and up by a point from 2015.

Regarding their involvement during the hiring process, 82 percent said they reviewed the position description for accuracy, 69 percent said they discussed with HR the skills needed to perform the job, 56 percent said they discussed hiring flexibilities and just 28 percent said they discussed incentive strategies. Those were unchanged, or virtually so, over the three years.

The results were based on responses from some 40,500 managers.