How agencies can improve recruitment and hiring without Congress' help

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 1:56 p.m.

b"Don't hold your breath waiting for Congress to do anything about reforming the civil service. So agencies will have to continue to take in on themselves to improve the personnel recruitment and hiring practices everyone professes to hate. Now some new ideas have come out in a study by the Partnership for Public Service and sponsored by the S. D. Bechtel Junior Foundation. For some of the highlights, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the Partnership's director of government affairs, Margot Conrad.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"