Reforming federal hiring: Does the Chance to Compete Act promise more than the government can deliver?

Summary: Long considered complicated and time-consuming, and with well over 100 different hiring authorities, the federal recruitment process is finally positioned for a much-needed transformation. But without the right investments in time, resources and staffing, agencies will struggle to expand small-scale successes from the last few years. For years, if not decades, presidential administrations and Congress have tried to get creative, finding loopholes and other piecemeal ways to weave through the government’s convoluted, red-taped process for hiring new employees —the reason agencies have so many hiring authorities in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices