The Trump administration is calling on agencies to hire federal employees more quickly, and will soon ask candidates applying for federal jobs how they will adhere to its government efficiency agenda.
The Office of Personnel Management, under a governmentwide Merit Hiring Plan released last week, is directing agencies to recruit “individuals committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government,” and will have candidates on USAJobs fill out short essays about how they plan to support the administration’s priorities when applying for jobs.
The governmentwide hiring effort will focus on recruiting early career, STEM and veteran candidates.
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell and Vince Haley, the assistant to the president for domestic policy, wrote that an overly complex federal hiring system “overemphasized discriminatory ‘equity’ quotas and too often resulted in the hiring of unfit, unskilled bureaucrats.”
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