The Challenge to Think Differently
Learn to think differently so you can better inspire change for the betterment of yourself and government.
Career
A Radical Approach for Crafting Winning Cover Letters
An impressive cover letter will probably make a great first impression to hiring managers — which is key to landing an interview.
How to Become a High Payoff Learner
In Be Bad First, the opening keynote speech at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit, Andersen explained that you can drive change for yourself and for the world if you get good at acquiring new skills. The key, she argues, is adopting the right strategies for high payoff learning.
What To Do When You’ve Royally Screwed Up At Work (Part 2)
Use these six tips to turn your mistakes into growing experiences
How to Become the Coworker Everybody Looks Up To
Earning the respect of your coworkers is an important part of advancing your career
Workforce Trend: The Boomerang Employee
Hiring “boomerangs” is a workforce trend that will increase as HR and Talent Managers deal with the challenge of hiring qualified employees.
How to Keep Connected While Working on a Virtual Team
Best practices to keep you engaged and effective while working on a virtual team.
Finding Career “Luck”
Where does managing your career fall in your priorities? You cannot it leave it up to your boss to notice all your good work and create a career path for you.
A New Breeding Ground for Gov Tech Talent
Coding boot camps are making it much easier to learn the necessary skills to work as a web developer. Through boot camp courses, government agencies can help their employees learn new, useful skills without having to leave their current jobs.
Meet the Govie Who’s Fast Tracking Citizenship for Immigrants
Immigration has impacted almost all of our lives in one way or another. Whether you are an immigrant yourself or one of your colleagues is trying to help her parents become citizens, we all know how tedious the immigration process can be. Fortunately, there are people like Mariela Melero who are innovating the immigration process… Read more »