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Federal Government Catching Up With Private Sector For Hiring Practices By John Vinson Depending on whether or not you've applied to work for the federal government, you may or may not know of the hiring practices that take place for potential employees. Potential hires were required to write essays about the job they were applying for. Then for every job applied for, a new essay was required. After Obama's memo is put into effect; calling for new guidelines in federal hiring practices the process looks to be better streamlined. Director of Office of Personnel Management, John Berry and Jeffrey Zients, a private business specialist were assigned to provide President Obama with ideas on how to speed up and improve the hiring process. The new policy approved by Obama looks to cut the processing time for new hires from 140 to 80 days or less. The biggest changes being implemented are the abolishment of the essay system, and instead of requiring new hires to apply for separate jobs they are pooled together. Then hiring managers can pull applicants from a wider selection source." Continue Reading

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