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The Weakest Link: How Strengthening Assessment Leads to Better Federal Hiring Partnership and PDRI 08/26/2010 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.

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Closing the Gap: Seven Obstacles to a First-Class Federal Workforce Partnership and Grant Thorton 08/18/2010 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.

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Federal CIO Roadmap Partnership 07/02/2010 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.

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On Demand Government: Deploying Flexibilities to Ensure Service Continuity Partnership 07/01/2010 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.

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The Partnership Press: Spring 2010 Newsletter Partnership 06/14/2010 What's Inside: Partnership and PER host annual Public Service Recognition Week; 2010 Service to America Medals finalists are announced at Capitol Hill breakfast; Ready to Govern report examines presidential transition; Partnership and The Washington Post launch The Federal Coach online column

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Foreign Language Skills: Lost in Translation Partnership 06/10/2010 The U.S. government faces numerous challenges and threats in the 21st century that require federal employees with diverse foreign language skills. Congress, federal agencies, and colleges and universities must work creatively and collaboratively to provide more opportunities and incentives for students and federal workers to learn the foreign languages essential to our national security and crucial diplomatic efforts.

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Partnership for Public Service Annual Report FY 2009 Partnership 04/26/2010 As 2009 began with the historic swearing in of a new president, a record number of people expressing interest in public service and growing demands on our government, we knew it would be a year of great opportunity for the Partnership. Indeed, this was arguably our most ambitious and productive year since our inception nearly a decade ago. In this annual report, we provide details on the Partnership's accomplishments. We also share with you just a few stories of federal employees making a difference in government, individuals inspired to service through Partnership programs and those assisted by our leadership development training to better serve the nation.

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Building An Information Technology Workforce Partnership 03/09/2010 The ability of government agencies to fulfill their missions is in peril, requiring immediate and thoughtful attention to the recruitment, hiring and retention of talented IT professionals. Without the right people in the right jobs, our government’s ability to accomplish its mission will be hindered by failing projects and high attrition rates. By investing in IT talent, government will ensure mission success and maintain a safe and prosperous nation.

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Partnership for Public Service Brochure Partnership 03/01/2010 Americans need effective government. Every day, we rely on our federal government to deliver vital services from protecting our homeland to revitalizing the economy. Today, our nation faces unprecedented challenges from expanding health care coverage to creating and supporting sources of energy. We need our government to be the best it can be. The Partnership's brochure, "Good Government Starts with Good People," provides an overview of the organization's work to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way our government works.

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Ready to Govern: Improving the Presidential Transition Partnership 01/13/2010 The constitutional transfer of presidential power has been one of the hallmarks of American democracy—a peaceful ritual that provides continuity for our government as well as an opportunity for change and renewal. Based on the Partnership's interviews with key transition officials from both the Obama and McCain campaigns, and the Bush White House, Ready to Govern: Improving the Presidential Transition examines the transition beginning in early 2008 through President Obama’s first year in office. The report takes a behind-the-scenes look at President Obama and John McCain’s transition operations and their successes and shortcomings.

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The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.

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Closing the Gap: Seven Obstacles to a First-Class Federal Workforce
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.
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Cyber IN-Security: Strengthening the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce
The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton examined the state of the federal cybersecurity workforce by interviewing experts inside and outside of government, and examining public testimony, reports and documents. The Partnership and Booz Allen held focus groups and surveyed federal chief information officers (CIOs), chief information security officers (CISOs) and human resource (HR) officials at 18 federal agencies. The results of this research are troubling and, in many ways, familiar. The overriding finding of our analysis is that our federal government will be unable to combat these threats without a more coordinated, sustained effort to increase cybersecurity expertise in the federal workforce.
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Federal CIO Roadmap
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.
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Foreign Language Skills: Lost in Translation
The U.S. government faces numerous challenges and threats in the 21st century that require federal employees with diverse foreign language skills. Congress, federal agencies, and colleges and universities must work creatively and collaboratively to provide more opportunities and incentives for students and federal workers to learn the foreign languages essential to our national security and crucial diplomatic efforts.
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On Demand Government: Deploying Flexibilities to Ensure Service Continuity
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.
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Ready to Govern: Improving the Presidential Transition
The constitutional transfer of presidential power has been one of the hallmarks of American democracy—a peaceful ritual that provides continuity for our government as well as an opportunity for change and renewal. Based on the Partnership's interviews with key transition officials from both the Obama and McCain campaigns, and the Bush White House, Ready to Govern: Improving the Presidential Transition examines the transition beginning in early 2008 through President Obama’s first year in office. The report takes a behind-the-scenes look at President Obama and John McCain’s transition operations and their successes and shortcomings.
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The Partnership Press: Spring 2010 Newsletter
What's Inside: Partnership and PER host annual Public Service Recognition Week; 2010 Service to America Medals finalists are announced at Capitol Hill breakfast; Ready to Govern report examines presidential transition; Partnership and The Washington Post launch The Federal Coach online column
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The Weakest Link: How Strengthening Assessment Leads to Better Federal Hiring
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.
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Unrealized Vision: Reimagining the Senior Executive Service
The federal government’s Senior Executive Service (SES), as envisioned 30 years ago by government reformers, has fallen short of its promise and is inadequate to meet today’s challenges, according to a report by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton. The report examines the state of the 7,000-member elite corps of federal leaders and how government develops, recruits, hires, retains, pays and trains its top managers.
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Where the Jobs Are 2009: Mission-Critical Opportunities for America
Our federal government is hiring tens of thousands of new employees at a steady pace, with job openings available for every interest area and at virtually every agency. Where the Jobs Are, the only comprehensive projection of the federal government’s hiring needs, presents a clear roadmap of these exciting public service possibilities, outlining both the specific types of permanent, full-time federal jobs being filled and agency-by-agency hiring projections.
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