Do KSAs Really Matter?
It can be difficult and time consuming to prepare KSA statement responses. However, they are a critical component to your federal job application package.
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It can be difficult and time consuming to prepare KSA statement responses. However, they are a critical component to your federal job application package.
A mail carrier was accused by a woman of stepping into her house to personally deliver mail to her, pushing her behind a door, grabbing her and kissing her.
The President has nominated a couple of DC area locals. The author asks if the unions will oppose these nominees as “ideologues.”
A former Navy employee argued, in effect, that he did his job well and that removal was an unduly harsh penalty. The Merit Systems Protection Board thought removal was appropriate after the agency had imposed three disciplinary actions. The case then moved into federal court.
The paid parental leave bill for federal employees has been approved by the House of Representatives. The bill would provide paid leave of up to four weeks after the birth or adoption of a child.
Setting up a program to ensure it is successful means paying attention to details. A program to encourage suggestions from federal employees on how to improve government got considerable publicity. The result: A big yawn from the federal workforce. Perhaps the program sponsors should have told the federal workforce where to send their ideas instead of just extolling the benefits of their new idea for creating a 21st century bureaucracy.
Federal agencies are searching for the candidate that most closely matches the requirements for the jobs that they are seeking to fill. A generic resume will not be as successful as one that is written specifically for a job announcement.
For the third month in a row, all of the funds in the federal Thrift Savings Plan provides positive returns for investors. In fact, the past three months have been the best for the C fund index since 1938. The best return in May: 13.41% for the I Fund.
On remand from a court decision, FLRA was instructed to revisit a record. In a decision blaming the Agency for not rebutting the Union’s lousy evidence, FLRA relies on unsupported emails to decide the case. The author suggests that this case offers the parties an opportunity to dramatically affect future negotiability proceedings.
An explosives operator at Pine Bluff Arsenal told a co-worker he would “cut the buttons off her overalls” with the knife he was holding. She was not amused at the “joke” and the employee was fired. The appeal by the fired fed eventually went to a federal court.