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The Fork in the Road, 18 Months Later: 20,557 Replacements Were Hired
You remember the Fork in the Road email — the subject line, and the one-word reply: Resign. Eighteen months later, the numbers are in: the government hired your replacements. Somet...
The Loyalty Question and DoD’s Sealed Hiring Boards: What Federal Applicants Should Know
The loyalty question on federal job applications — the essay asking how you would help advance the President’s executive orders — now sits alongside a second change most applicants...
OPM Removed the Bias Check on Federal Hiring Assessments: What Changed for Applicants
Federal hiring assessments no longer have to clear the government's 48-year-old bias check before an agency uses one on you. In an interim final rule that took effect immediately, ...
Veterans’ Preference Is Not a Federal Hiring Flaw
A FedRAMP hiring controversy has exposed a familiar problem in federal workforce debates: blaming the legal protection instead of examining how the hiring process was designed and ...
Political Loyalty and Federal Hiring Law
Recent reporting has raised an uncomfortable question about how some federal hiring decisions may be framed. According to a summary circulated by a law school career services offic...
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