How the Pentagon’s Digital SWAT Team Cracked Government’s Hiring Code
The Defense Digital Service team has compiled years of hiring and recruiting knowledge into a downloadable guide that it calls “Break the Code.”
Posts Tagged: Hiring
Inclusive Hiring Starts with the Right Job Description
To help make writing a job description a bit easier, here are tips you can use to support your process for hiring accessibility talent.
3 Tips for Tech Savvy Job Interviews
How can you adapt your hiring practices to accommodate working remotely?
You Did What? How to Explain Why What You Did is Relevant
In the years since Peace Corps and AmeriCorps, I’ve learned how to explain what I did in ways that are professionally relevant. Now, as someone in management who interviews job candidates, I have new perspective on how to land a job or prove to a hiring manager you are ready to take on new responsibilities.
Is Your Organization Ready for an Onboarding Program?
As more government agencies are doing more with less, an onboarding program can capitalize on productivity.
Are You Cultivating a Culture of Honor?
An organization led by people of integrity who hire honest workers and embrace a culture of honor is bound to be staffed by highly-engaged employees. Having engaged employees is the most effective driver of success.
A New Job Awaits You
On Tuesday, Jan. 28 and Wednesday, Jan. 29, reStart Events will host hiring and networking events in the D.C. area specially tailored to government employees with security clearances.
Can Mercenaries Impact the Mission?
When looking to build out your team, how do you determine cultural fit? Given the need for government to hire candidates who align with the long-term objectives of an agency, one framework to use is missionary vs. mercenary.
Need a New Year’s Resolution? Try Hiring for Weakness
We tend to hire those who look, act, think, and sound like ourselves – often without even knowing it. We just inexplicably feel better about those who remind us of us. We mistakenly call it “hiring for fit.” But it really is our egocentric bias.
3 Challenges Managers Face in Retaining Their Teams
Retaining talent is an obstacle currently faced by managers in the federal service. Here are three challenges we uncovered.
