New guidance documents from the Office of Personnel Management outline the steps agencies should take to begin using the “rule of many” in federal hiring.

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new initiative aimed at improving the hiring process for federal job applicants, hiring managers and other agency HR officials alike, as the White ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Monday finalized regulations more than a half decade in the making aimed at giving federal hiring managers greater flexibility in selecting applicants for federal ...

On May 29, 2025, the White House and Office of Personnel Management jointly released a 30-page Merit Hiring Plan that mandates new requirements and procedures for executive branch hiring. As a former ...

NASA Artemis astronaut candidates attend their graduation ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images) The most recent astronaut ...

The Trump administration on Thursday issued new guidelines barring federal agencies from considering race or gender in the hiring process. The guidelines, part of a Merit Hiring Plan sent to agency ...

Agency executives likely breathed a sigh of relief reading the May 1 memo from Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta. Finally, agencies could make excepted-service appointments ...

While recruitment methods that businesses use can range from straightforward vetting and interviews to what at times can be downright tricky questions designed to tease out the way a candidate thinks, ...

It doesn’t end July 15. The federal hiring freeze that has stretched six months is now the official 2025 hiring freeze. The new end date and hiring updates are below. The Trump administration has made ...