RELATED March 10, 2026 Partnership for Public Service's public comments on OPM's "Reduction in Force Appeals" proposed rule March 06, 2026 Partnership for Public Service’s public comments on OPM’s “Suitability Action Appeals” proposed rule February 13, 2026 Partnership for Public Service’s public comments on OPM’s “Ensuring Consistent and Rigorous Standards for Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Programs” proposed rule Back to Reports Winning the Best and the Brightest: Increasing the Attraction of Public Service July 14, 2001 Carol Chetkovich of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government takes an in-depth look at how students in the nation’s public policy schools view the prospect of federal employment, how those views are formed and what the schools and the government can do to induce greater numbers of them to choose service in the federal government over the private sector. Download (409k)