Partnership for Public Service

Recognizing Civil Servants

Submitted by on Wed, 12/20/2017 - 08:07

One of the things I learned working on the Reinventing Government initiative in the 1990s for Vice President Gore was that civil servants do some pretty amazing things. And they get little recognition for it. But now it's time to make government cool again!

Federal Jobs: A New Era

Submitted by on Wed, 12/20/2017 - 07:52

The Washington Post reports that the Partnership for Public Service released a study this morning describing the hiring needs of the federal government. The study, "Where the Jobs Are 2009: Mission Critical Opportunities for America," says that the federal government needs to hire 273,000 new workers in the next three years.

From Data to Decisions III

Submitted by on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 15:04

Today’s senior managers are tempted to begin analytics programs before determining the mission-essential questions they are seeking data to answer.  Older data-based analytics efforts often grew out of the discoveries of line employees who made connections and saw patterns in data after receiving new software or hardware that helped them make sense of what they were studying.

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