The Office of Personnel Management has announced that it
intends to build on its work with the Department of Housing
and Urban Development by re-engineering agency-specific
hiring practices at other departments and agencies.
In the same testimony before the House Subcommittee on Civil
Service and Agency Organization it also announced plans to
develop HR competency models and manage a “community of
practice,” to share information on GoLearn.gov.
OPM has said agencies do not use hiring flexibilities enough
and has stepped up efforts to educate federal managers and
CHCOs about them. Agencies say there is a lack of guidance for
using the flexibilities.
At the same hearing, the Department of Defense announced plans
to begin using category-rating authority, which is designed to
widen the pool of applicants available for hire by assigning
them to quality categories such as “best qualified,” or
“highly qualified.”
