OPM will issue updated instructions through a revised Delegated Examining Operations Handbook to guide implementation. The ...

In an attempt to give federal agencies more flexibility in how they assign, pay and promote high-tech workers, the Office of Personnel Management has created a new occupational group, the "information ...

OPM is providing more details and deadlines for the Trump administration’s “merit hiring plan,” along with finalizing the “rule of many” for hiring managers.

The Office of Personnel Management last week released a new job family standard and modern job descriptions for federal information technology workers, designed to help agencies recruit and hire ...

The Office of Personnel Management earlier this month released a new job family standard and modern job descriptions and titles for information technology workers in government. Now comes the hard ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced that it plans to eliminate nearly 50 occupational codes for federal jobs because agencies have ceased using them to hire employees. In a memo ...

OPM: Federal job announcements need to be shorter and sweeter Government continues to simplify the hiring process, but vacancy descriptions could be more succinct, official says.

The Office of Personnel Management posted an ad for its vacant chief information officer position on USAjobs.gov late last week. The person would replace Matthew Perry, the CIO at OPM for nearly three ...

The focus on position rather than performance carried over into the 1949 Classification Act, which eventually created the 15 grades and 10 steps of the General Schedule.