FROM: Jeffrey D. Zients, Federal Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
John Berry, Director, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
DATE: February 18, 2011
SUBJECT: Senior Executive Service Initiative
By Barbara A. Adams, CPRW, CEIP, CFRW, MMRW
The federal government is seeking the men and women with well-honed executive leadership skills and qualifications that can continue to transform government. SES jobs can be found by visiting www.usajobs.opm.gov and perform a search on the keyword SES. This site also provides additional background on the SES or senior executive service concept.
Reality Check: Are You SES Material?
Barbara Adams
Maybe you are a civil servant who has been highly successful at the GS-14 or GS-15 level for a while, and your SES colleagues are nudging you to go for it. Or maybe you are a corporate executive, poised to make the transition and apply your business acumen to the federal government.
By Barbara A. Adams, CPRW, CEIP, CFRW, MMRW
ECQs must be written in a CCAR (Content, Challenge, Action, Result) model and emphasize leadership. There are many variables that are included in each ECQ.
Below are the top 10 reasons your ECQs may never make it past the QRB.
• Didn’t describe what he/she did personally to achieve results.
The federal government is hiring. The perks can be generous and you don’t have to live in D.C.
By Barbara Adams
President & CEO, CareerPro Global, Inc.
The federal government is hiring, according to a new study by a nonprofit group called the Partnership for Public Service (www.ourpublicservice.org).
Most of the hiring is due to two big factors – the aging of the workforce and the war on terror. Nearly one-third of the government’s 1.6 million full-time employees are expected to retire over the next few years, and they all need to be replaced. At the same time, more than 83,000 jobs are being added at agencies charged with protecting the United States, including 47,897 jobs at the Department of Homeland Security and 35,505 at the Department of Defense.
