Hiring Excellence is designed to share knowledge and assist the Federal Government in attracting diverse, talented, applicants and hiring highly-qualified candidates. The toolkit is one of three Accelerating the Gears of Transformation Tools that OPM released to support the President’s Management Agenda’s Cross-Agency Priority Goal on Developing a Workforce for the 21st Century

In response to Acquisition Hiring Challenges, the Classification and Assessment Policy Talent Acquisition and Workforce Shaping Employee Services office at OPM spearheaded a Focus Group to Explore barriers to Acquisition hiring. The results, and more importantly, references and resources are presented in the attached brief. Challenges and recommendations include topics such as: the Hiring Process, Lack of Qualified Candidates, Recruitment, and Retention.
A new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memo (link is external) urges agencies to review how they assess job candidates. The guidance promotes easy and strategic hiring by:
Analyzing and improving methods of assessing applicant quality;




Involving subject matter experts in the assessment process; and
Applying more rigor in determining who may be considered for the position.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has launched a toolkit (link is external) to help agencies modernize their workplaces and human resource (HR) capabilities through reskilling and upskilling. The tools include:
A workforce reshaping executive playbook to help executive leaders make decisions related to human capital strategies (link is external) ;
A reskilling toolkit to help HR personnel design reskilling and upskilling opportunities (link is external) ;
Guidance for change management to outline steps for making physical and cultural transitions (link is external) .
Federal HR Institute (link is external) (FHRI) - is a key part of the government-wide initiative to grow the federal HR workforce’s capability. The FHRI curriculum establishes a single, standardize

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