Publications

The Partnership for Public Service created What’s My Role, a step-by-step guide designed to help federal managers fully understand the crucial part that they play in the hiring process. The guide includes five basic steps essential for successful hiring.

This brochure provides an overview of the 2010 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings and lists the top scoring large and small agencies, and subcomponents.

The Partnership for Public Service and PDRI collaborated to produce The Weakest Link, a report that discusses why progress on assessment in the federal hiring process has been slow, where the sticking points are and how agencies and OPM can move forward more effectively to implement the requirements in the May 11, 2010 hiring reform memorandum.

The Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton LLP conducted the third in a series of surveys of chief human capital officers (CHCOs), seeking their views and recommendations on a wide range of human capital management policies and practices that are impeding our government’s ability to hire, develop, motivate and retain the high-caliber talent the government and the American public need.

Developed as part of the Strategic Advisors to Government Executive (SAGE) program, this resource provides federal Chief Information Officers (CIOs) with a high-level overview of the president’s vision for technology, required responsibilities of a CIO as well as major deadlines that must be met.

The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton examined the current state of teleworking and four other flexible work arrangements—compressed workweeks, flextime, part-time schedules and job sharing—to better understand their use in the federal government today, to identify the impediments being encountered and to determine what approaches will be most effective to removing barriers.

Issue brief describing the federal government’s growing need for individuals with mission-critical foreign language skills and the barriers it faces to recruiting and hiring such talent.

Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach, testified before the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia, on current and proposed efforts to reform the federal hiring process.

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia on flexible work arrangements (FWA) and work-life programs in the federal government.

John Palguta, Vice President for Policy, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia, on federal training and internship programs.