Use the Proper KSA Format To Improve Your Chances of Obtaining the Federal Job You Want
The last thing you want to have happen is spending all day on your KSA responses, only to find you submitted them in the wrong format and that they didn't even get reviewed. Here are suggestion to improve your prospects of obtaining the job you want.
Posted: July 2, 2009 7:36 AM | Full Story
NFFE National President Found Dead
Richard N. Brown, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees and a leading spokesperson for federal employee issues, died unexpectedly yesterday at his apartment in Arlington, VA
Posted: July 2, 2009 7:09 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Paying For Your Own Travel Is Only for the Little People--Not Congressmen
If you want to travel to exotic locations at taxpayer expense, don't use your government travel card as you might get in trouble. Instead, get elected to Congress. "Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago."
Posted: July 2, 2009 8:46 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
You Were Not Forgotten: Unknown Soldier Honored after 70 Years
On the 4th of July — in Vine Grove, Kentucky — Private Stanislaw J. Komla will be eulogized. It was in 1939 the 49 year-old was laid to rest. For 70 years, he was know only as the Unknown Soldier — until a local family decided 70 years was just too long.
Posted: July 2, 2009 7:46 AM | Full Story
Too "Elite" for Union Represenation
Unlike the private sector, it is rare for a union to lose an election in the federal government. But it does happen. Union organizers at a federal science agency have failed in their efforts to unionize researchers and technicians there and quickly prompting allegations of suppression and union busting
Posted: July 2, 2009 7:02 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
A Cheaper Approach to Return to the Moon
NASA's shuttle program manager is floating a cut-rate alternative return to the moon that costs around $6.6 billion.
Posted: July 1, 2009 9:31 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
The World's Largest Debtor Nation
In the early 1980s, America's net international investment position averaged 11 percent of our Gross Domestic Product, making the United States the world's largest creditor. Today, we are the world's largest debtor - by far. At minus $3.47 trillion, America's net debtor status with foreigners represents nearly 25 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, the highest level in history.
Posted: July 1, 2009 8:15 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Honest Herman - GM Salesman and Union Steward...
General Motors, the symbol of American capitalism, is now being run by a combination of the same managers who ran it into bankruptcy and the United Auto Workers union. Perhaps the "new GM" will be like the "labor-management partnership" days under the Clinton-Gore administration where the union sometimes became involved in making management decisions.
Posted: July 1, 2009 7:16 AM | Full Story
HR'S Station Stop Called "Disapproval"
The author contends that Agency heads should either not exercise their review in favor of challenging clauses in a negotiated collective bargaining agreement when their enforcement is an actual issue for management or they should delegate the power to the managers at the bargaining table. He says, "they need to get off the tracks so that agencies can bargain for immediate implementation of mid-term agreements upon execution, not upon approval."
Posted: July 1, 2009 6:40 AM | Full Story
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