The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced that it plans to eliminate nearly 50 occupational codes for federal jobs because agencies have ceased using them to hire employees. In a memo ...

The Office of Personnel Management last week released a new job family standard and modern job descriptions for federal information technology workers, designed to help agencies recruit and hire ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board’s latest newsletter highlights a costly government problem that has been ignored for years. It’s the reality of position classification, the decision process for ...

For decades, most state and local governments have had a one-size-fits-all job classification system. The typical IT department included titles like Technology Officer IV or Systems Analyst III with ...

Federal job classification systems vary by agency, but the most widely used is the General Schedule (GS), which covers most civilian white-collar positions. Most federal employees must be U.S.

The Office of Personnel Management last week posted a draft list of the educational and experiential qualifications needed for federal positions, as the agency continues its efforts to implement a ...