More than 400,000 employees from 82 federal agencies participated in the 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). The survey measured, among other things, employee engagement, or “an employee’s sense of purpose, manifest in the level of dedication, persistence, and effort that he or she puts into the work and into the overall commitment to anRead… Read more »
Who is really employed by the government? Who works in those office buildings? And what exactly do they do? Questions about the state of state and local government worker demographics abound. So we decided to take a look at the makeup of the state and local government workforce. While each state and locality is slightlyRead… Read more »
HR professionals play a critical role in government. Among their many functions, they recruit, select, and onboard employees. But too often their work is done through tedious and slow paper-based processes. Today, this no longer has to be the case. With Enterprise Content Management (ECM), HR professionals can automate much of the storing, searching, compiling,Read… Read more »
I’ve learned a lot over the last seven years as a full-time teleworking employee – both as a manager and as a member of geographically-dispersed project teams. One of the biggest lessons is that telework forces both managers and team members to hone their communication skills and think more intentionally about the way they get… Read more »
GovLoop recently hosted an awesome online training with Heather Krasna, an expert career coach who has been helping people network and land gigs for many years. As an expert in all things careers and networking, Heather sent us an impressive document, detailing the 7 steps of the networking process. We then transformed it and outRead… Read more »
Well, here we are: the third post in a series of infographs that transformed content on USAJOBS into works of art. Here are links to the other two: – 4 Winning Tips for a Successful Job Interview – 10 Tips for Letting Federal Employers Know Your Worth By the way, if you like the infographRead… Read more »
A few weeks ago, I was browsing USAJOBS – not because I was looking for a GovGig (I hope Steve just breathed a sigh of relief), but because I wanted to see what kinds of resources were out there for job seekers. I landed on their “Info Center” and discovered a series of tips forRead… Read more »