Recent bipartisan bills seek to incorporate skills-based hiring into federal cybersecurity jobs, as well as update caps for employee separation incentives.

If you know how to run large systems, cut through noise, and turn strategy into execution across government scale, this is that job,” Federal CIO Gregory Barbaccia said about the search for his deputy ...

A college student spent months applying to the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Internship Program. Thousands apply, few are selected. She made it through applications, interviews, ...

A Schedule Policy/Career final rule aims to make it easier to fire some career employees. About 94% of comments on OPM's initial proposal opposed the change.

The federal government hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump as one of his first acts in office will be lifted Wednesday. But budget director Mick Mulvaney says many jobs will remain ...

Some federal workers aren’t leaving public service altogether. They’re landing jobs in local government. A job-seeking platform managed by national nonprofit Work for America is helping some workers ...

When President Donald Trump took the oath of office for a second time in January, more than 3 million people worked for the federal government. While the Trump administration has taken many ...

Nonprofit Work for America is helping former federal workers get state and local government roles, after the largest cuts in ...

The federal government shed another 34,000 jobs in January as previously departed employees whose separation packages expired ...

CNN spoke with several former federal workers who were laid off or accepted buyouts amid DOGE’s aggressive and controversial cuts last year.

The job losses at the federal government and at state governments have hit nonfarm employment all year, and hard. State governments shed 45,000 jobs in 2025, including another 7,000 in December, after ...