U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Merit Hiring Plan” asks applicants for federal government jobs to write an essay naming their favorite Trump policy or executive order and how they would implement it.

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 ...

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday urged the Trump administration to rescind the ‘merit hiring plan’ it published last week, calling a provision mandating new essay ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced a plan to "supercharge" hiring of new air traffic controllers with the goal of easing the staffing shortage. As part of the new plan announced by ...

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