When it comes to applying for a federal job, knowledge, skills and abilities are intended to measure the qualities that set you apart from other applicants. The author discusses some specifics about each aspect of KSAs.
• Leave a CommentPension contributions paid by federal civilian workers hired after January 1, 2014 would increase by 1.3% under the new budget agreement according to reports. It would also allow OPM to create a self-plus-one option in the federal employee health program.
• Leave a CommentThe Thrift Savings Plan has announced that it will begin conducting short user feedback surveys from plan participants.
• Leave a CommentThe Homeland Security Department has fired an employee who runs a website predicting and advocating a race war, about four months after he was put on paid administrative leave.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that he doesn’t see a problem with having federal employees pay more towards their pension plans as part of the budget agreement, but says that it should apply to all federal workers and not just new hires.
• Leave a CommentPlanning is essential, but it takes more than just sufficient savings to ensure you have a successful retirement.
• Leave a CommentWe all have to go through the tough financial times at one point or another, and the better prepared you are, the less painful it will be to endure.
• Leave a CommentA tentative federal budget agreement struck late Tuesday has groups representing retirement plan sponsors and federal workers gearing up for a fight over pension costs.
• Leave a CommentWhat portion of the budget deal will be paid for by the federal workforce? This chart shows the breakdown.
• Leave a CommentFederal Agency advocates, attorneys, HR advisors and adverse action decision makers should make a point of reading the MSPB’s new report titled Clean Record Settlement Agreements and the Law. The report identifies the pitfalls involved in making deals with employees in which the Agency agrees to expunge negative information from an employee’s record in return for a resignation.
• Leave a CommentThe budget agreement is the latest evidence in a trend towards reducing pensions for government workers.
• Leave a CommentHere are a few things that the budget deal doesn’t do.
• Leave a CommentAn enforcement officer found himself in hot water when caught being married to two women at the same time and allowing a third woman and her child to use his federal health benefits plan as his wife and stepdaughter. See how the arbitrator and the appeals court ruled.
• Leave a CommentIn any given week, about one-third of the entire 100,000 federal workforce at USDA is busy teleworking which some of its employees say has increased productivity.
• Leave a CommentOfficials at Shaw Air Force Base are trying to determine what to do about a holiday display after a Nativity scene was taken down last week following a complaint that it was unconstitutional.
• Leave a CommentThe Environmental Protection Agency was warned as early as July 2010 that a senior executive who claimed to be a CIA agent was collecting pay and bonuses not allowed by law but took no action for years, according to a new report from the agency’s inspector general.
• Leave a CommentWhile few want to raise taxes or cut popular programs such as Medicare, there’s seemingly broad support to cut pay or benefits for federal workers.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that the recent attack at the Los Angeles airport is the most recent evidence of the agency’s inability to serve its mission.
• Leave a CommentNASA’s Johnson Space Center has released a battery-powered humanoid robot.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that Congress must make government transparency and open government pillars of its legislative strategy moving forward to avoid another shutdown.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that when juxtaposed with the October shutdown, the recent snow that hit DC is evidence that some of the federal workers labeled as “essential” may not necessarily be so.
• Leave a CommentFederal workers are outraged that a possible bipartisan budget deal expected by Friday could require workers to pay more into their pensions to offset other budget cuts.
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