All Blog Posts Tagged 'The' (36)

HydroPoint Data Systems Partners With Belkin Echo Water for Smart Water Management; Department of Defense Selects Belkin Echo Electricity for Military Installation Demonstration

Belkin, a trusted leader of technology solutions for office, classroom, IT infrastructure, and mobile environments, today introduced Echo, an advanced sensor technology system for buildings that…

If you don’t know The Children’s Inn at NIH, you should. Nestled in the NIH campus next to the world renowned research hospital, The Inn is a “place like home” to more than 10,000 children who bravely have traveled from all 50 states and 84 countries to find a cure.

Children are admitted to the NIH hospital, known as the Clinical Center, via doctor referral. Realize that not only have these families exhausted all of their medical options at…

Please join us on FedTalk Radio to discuss Pathway applications. I'll be discussing the Federal Resume format that will be the best for current students and recent graduates!

Information: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/215/3204504/Demystifying-the-Pathways-Program

Back in November 2012, someone posted on the White House’s “We The People” site petitioning the federal government to secure funding and resources to build a Death Star by 2016. We The People is an online petition website that allows any citizen to make a suggestion, and if it receives 25,000 votes, the White House will issue an official response. The Death Star petition reached 25,000 votes in December and one month later, the White House …

I am an Amazon.Com customer - have been since Jeff Bezos launched it in 1995. It's still evolving as an innovative on-line commerce platform. They have initiated a socially responsible program worth noting.

Today my visit to the site opened with a letter from Jeff – about an investment in the…

I taught 9 classes in Bahrain to US Navy Sailors a few weeks ago. We discovered these 9 major problems with applying for a federal job online over and over again!  If you have other problems with the automated application systems, please write comments here. I will forward your suggestions to our USAJOBS point of contact. I gave this problem list to my OPM Automated Recruitment contact. Maybe there will be a change !!!

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USAJOBS.GOV and Applicationmanager.gov – Both require…

So you may have heard about that new Hunger Games movie or know a little something a boy named Harry, but honestly, why should you be reading young adult literature (YA Lit)?  Isn’t it just for kids?  

Actually, no, YA Lit is awesome because it can teach some great lessons that you will actually enjoy learning. YA authors are the best- kind, funny and insightful (I have about 15 great three minute interviews with the coolest of these authors on my…

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Call or write an email with your questions and challenges with your Federal Job Search! Internet or radio listening!

February 10, 2012 -- This week on FEDtalk, host Debra Rothwill lead a roundtable discussion on federal resume writing, and federal employment "train the trainer" programs in the D.C. area.

Experts who specialize in federal job…

And Other Random Thoughts

Mitt Romney has said that he’s not concerned about “the very poor”, because they have the safety net. The TANF (cash welfare) benefit for a three-person household in Massachusetts is $618 per month. The average SNAP (food stamps) benefit is $264 for that family each month.

I sent an email…

I analyzed SOTA for all remarks, plans, legislation, ideas to support JOBS and TRAINING and EDUCATION in the US for 2012. I came up with 11 major points that were made.

I wrote this:  “The initiatives described in the State of the Union may or may not be offering you real jobs today. “  Read my entire blog for quotes from the SOTA.

I pulled his direct quotes in the blog: …

Do you know the top three New Year’s resolutions for Americans in 2012?

#1 Lose Weight

#2 Reduce Stress

#3 Financial Management

The same three resolutions are also critical for success in your federal job search. Let me show you how:

#1 Lose Weight

Make Your Resume Lean AND…

The White Horse Digital Futures Group’s exclusive report provides feedback for 30 citizen-focused government mobile applications, plus mobile development guidelines helpful for public or private organizations.

"The number of smartphone users in the U.S. is approaching the 100 million user mark. Government bears a responsibility to…

Hey GovLoop fans,

I hope you share my excitement when holding the summer issue of The Public Manager. It’s being distributed to subscribers right now. If you can’t wait, if you urgently need help with information overload, managing in a fishbowl, or attending to the big challenge of 21^st Century government reorganization being considered by President Obama, go online at our site,…

Glenn McGovern

On November 1, 2006, Former FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) Colonel Alexander Litvinenko left his residence around 11:00 A.M. He caught the bus to the East Finchley tube station where he then took the train for a twenty-minute ride into London.



On his agenda was a meeting with former KGB colleague Andrei Lugovoi, at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square. The purpose of…

I never thought the dissertation would take as long as it is. I'm a writer by trade - a former journalist and editor - so for most of my career as a Ph.D. student, I've been looking forward to my dissertation. But, unfortunately, writing is not what I've done so far. I've spent hours, days, weeks, and months - literally - in Excel.

I've created 2 major databases. The one I'm working on now is rather simple, but there's nothing out there like it - or that I've found. I've…

October 25-26, Alexandria, VA

As federal agencies face the new challenges of an environment of expanding missions, shrinking resources, greater accountability, and increased expectations, their HR, training and management professionals are being asked to ensure that their talent capacity adapts to changing priorities, changing focus, and even changing mission over the long term. Strategic talent management, which…

In our summer 2010 issue, Marnie Green, principle consultant of the Management Education Group, wrote about the growing trends that are changing the public workforce and dictating not only who we hire, but how we work. These four trends are:…