The Office of Personnel Management on Monday finalized regulations more than a half decade in the making aimed at giving federal hiring managers greater flexibility in selecting applicants for federal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering careers and strategic leadership for executives and managers. It didn’t end April 21. But there is now a new date for ...

It doesn’t end July 15. The federal hiring freeze that has stretched six months is now the official 2025 hiring freeze. The new end date and hiring updates are below. The Trump administration has made ...

The Trump administration on Thursday issued new guidelines barring federal agencies from considering race or gender in the hiring process. The guidelines, part of a Merit Hiring Plan sent to agency ...

If there’s anything that everyone anywhere close to the federal hiring process agrees about, it’s that the system is a mess, for applicants and agency officials alike. But the hiring plan the Trump ...