{"id":14489,"date":"2021-10-05T16:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/10\/05\/how-opm-plans-to-sell-federal-employment-to-new-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:41:01","slug":"how-opm-plans-to-sell-federal-employment-to-new-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/hr\/2021\/10\/05\/how-opm-plans-to-sell-federal-employment-to-new-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"How OPM plans to sell federal employment to new workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal government faces a potential recruitment crisis in the coming years, as 29 percent of the government\u2019s workforce is over 55 and near or above the minimum retirement age. Meanwhile only 8 percent of the federal workforce is below 30, according to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connolly, Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., convened at George Mason University in Virginia Oct. 4 to talk to students about the benefits of choosing a federal job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t toot our own horn. We have our heads down, doing our work,\u201d said Ahuja. \u201cOur appeal to you all today and what we\u2019ll be doing I think for months to come is that the federal government is a great place and a very cool place to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Ahuja, federal jobs have long been a ticket to the middle class, offering fair pay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/pay-benefits\/2021\/09\/29\/federal-health-insurance-costs-get-a-slight-increase-for-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\">broad health insurance options<\/a> and a robust retirement package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyer said that a federal employee has a \u201cvery clear career path.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou get not just job reviews every year but step increases,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you can start as a GS-5 and end up a GS-15, which is not true in many different fields. The second wonderful thing is that there is virtually no wage discrimination male against female because of this system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration also intends to use federal jobs as the national model for employment practices in areas like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/pay-benefits\/2021\/07\/20\/federal-paid-leave-expansion-advances-in-the-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">paid family leave<\/a>, organized labor protections and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/breaking-news\/2021\/09\/09\/biden-issues-full-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\">vaccination requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is actually the moment to come into the federal government,\u201d said Ahuja, noting that pandemic response efforts, coupled with environmental and infrastructure initiatives, have given the federal government many important jobs to tackle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyer said the federal government is increasingly \u201cdoing more with less. The ratio of federal employees to total U.S. citizens is the lowest it\u2019s been even in our lifetimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The true low point of federal employees compared to U.S. residents was in 2007, when there was approximately one federal employee for every 160 people in the U.S., according to OPM employment data and U.S. population data. Today that number stands at around one for every 156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the federal government has historically had much higher ratios, with a high of one fed for every 42 people in the U.S. in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A core problem, according to Connolly, stems from the federal government\u2019s internship program. In the private sector, companies aim for a double-digit percentage of interns to become permanent employees, with some above a 90-percent conversion rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the federal government, it\u2019s in the single digits. We have failed utterly at constructing an internship opportunity that serves for recruitment,\u201d said Connolly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OPM has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/hr\/2021\/08\/17\/opm-lays-out-path-for-more-paid-federal-interns\/\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the availability of paid federal internships<\/a> and enabled those interns to get paid up to the level of a GS-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Ahuja said \u201cthere\u2019s a lot more we can and should be doing,\u201d in areas like simplifying federal job postings and speeding up the notoriously long federal hiring process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such initiative encourages agencies to share candidate pools for substantively similar job postings, reducing the time it takes to collect a number of qualified candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahuja also sees a <a 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