Rob Seidner is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Public Administration at the University of Illinois–Chicago. He earned his MBA from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, as well his BA from Brandeis. He completed a Presidential Management Fellow appointment as a human resource specialist in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Human Capital Leadership and Merit System Compliance division. His primary research interests involve Federal human capital practices, including recruitment, pay for performance, accountability and high performance human resource work systems.