There are many issues to consider when setting your retirement date; some personal and others financial. There isn’t a stock answer for when you should retire and whatever date you choose will impact your benefits one way or the other. For the most part, voluntary CSRS retirements are best the first three days of theRead… Read more »
“What Color Is Your Parachute?” author Richard N. (Dick) Bolles and 26 other Job-Hunt Experts contributed over 100 tips to help job seekers leverage the year-end holidays for their job hunt in an ebook that will be FREE from Thanksgiving Day through midnight on Monday, November 26. Job hunters who are tempted to take aRead… Read more »
What are you thankful for on this 2012 Thanksgiving day? I am thankful for being surrounded with the most talented colleagues who are committed and dedicated to public service. My coworkers and colleagues are the best public servants! I am thankful for their wisdom and talents! How is your meal coming along? Enjoy this greatnessRead… Read more »
GovLoopers, I wanted to write a simple blog today to say Thank You for what you do. You inspire me every day with your passion, energy and determination to improve our government and to deliver public services to our citizens. I feel blessed that I’m fortunate enough to connect and share knowledge with 60,000+ GovLoopersRead… Read more »
Thanksgiving Service Thanksgiving is a pretty special time for me personally. As the oldest of six Thanksgiving has always been a time for family, friends and a very full house. From my earliest memories we have almost always had at least one “extra” at our house and often many more as members of the sportsRead… Read more »
Hola GovLoop, Last weekend I pitched and created a startup company at Houston Startup Weekend focused on improving government permitting processes (if you have operated a business, you know the pain). Our startup, PermitMe, won the competition and now is competing for votes in the Global Startup Battle versus 120 other startups from around theRead… Read more »
It’s that time of year again and we all know that our health care premiums, in most cases, will be going up. The (FEHB) Program premiums will increase by 3.4 percent in 2013, which is lower than last year’s increase of 3.8 percent. The average premium increase for the Federal Employees Dental and Vision InsuranceRead… Read more »
Howto.gov recently hosted a webinar on social media tools and Sandy. During the lead up, storm, and aftermath, NOAA had you covered. Personally, I was googling the storm as it happened, but looking back I should’ve just logged onto NWS’s facebook page. NWS tweeted and facebooked there way through preparedness with the country. They madeRead… Read more »
By Michael Ipsaro, PMP, CCE/A from Integrity Matters blog How a deep dive review can lead you to program gold. Routine monitoring of your acquisition program is important but is it enough to prevent problems that could damage your mission? Conducting a program assessment can reveal insights on a program’s health that will not onlyRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: 4 years in any technology cycle is a lifetime. Think about this – 4 years ago BYOD wasn’t even a possibility and tablets still seemed like a dream. So how can the government keep up? And more importantly how can the government utilize the latest and greatest technology to support itsRead… Read more »