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By: FEDweek StaffOPM’s latest update on its agency priority goals under the President’s Management Agenda, covering the third quarter of fiscal 2023, cites under the goal of improving recruitment and retention its issuance of proposed rules to streamline the Pathways Program, the government’s main internship and early career hiring and development program.
Those proposed changes would among other things expand the time to convert Pathways Interns from 120 to 180 days; modify the public notice requirement for vacancy announcements for Pathways Interns and Recent Graduates; and clarify and streamline the training and development requirements.
It also cited issuance of proposed rules to limit the use of salary history in hiring and pay-setting; efforts for agencies to better track trends in applications; granting the EPA direct hire authority for positions needed under the infrastructure spending law and other recent laws; and hosting an event to help military spouses navigate the federal hiring process.
Other activities cited including giving DoD users greater access to OPM’s data products; piloting a rollout of a DEIA dashboard with a dozen agencies; developing additional governmentwide dashboards on attrition and Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data to complement the existing DEIA dashboard; and continued steps toward the rollout of a Postal Service-only carveout of the FEHB to be effective in 2025.
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