All posts tagged "barack obama"
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Obama’s leadership adviser appointed to key HR roleUS president Joe Biden has appointed an Obama-era personnel official to lead efforts to rebuild relationships between the White House and the federal workforce, following four years of tension and
- Posted February 11, 2021
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US agency forges ahead with reforms to criminal record checksUS federal agencies are to be prohibited from enquiring about job applicants’ criminal records in the early stages of recruitment processes, according to guidance released this month by the Office
- Posted February 20, 2017
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New performance management system to affect more than 600,000 U.S. civil servantsMore than 600,000 civil servants at the U.S. defence department are to undergo a new performance management system dividing officials into three tiers: ‘outstanding’, ‘fully successful’ and ‘unacceptable’. The new
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Obama: ‘I couldn’t be prouder of the work America’s civil servants are doing’U.S. president Barack Obama has praised the country’s civil servants who “continue to raise the bar for America at home and overseas.” Writing in an op-ed for the Federal Times
- Posted December 9, 2015
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White House Hires First Transgender Staff MemberThe White House has hired its first openly transgender full-time member of staff, according to media reports. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan started working as an outreach and recruitment director for presidential staff
- Posted August 20, 2015
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IMF Appoints New Chief EconomistOne of U.S. president Barack Obama’s economic advisers has been appointed as the new chief economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). IMF managing director Christine Lagarde last week appointed
- Posted July 27, 2015
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How Should Governments Best Use Twitter?The social media tool Twitter is used by thousands of governments and national leaders, but who uses it most and who uses it best? Some interesting statistics have been found
- Posted June 9, 2014
