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Tools
Introduction
This website is a toolkit. Using the tools provided, you can take important steps now toward improving the way you recruit highly qualified individuals to Federal employment. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and a nonprofit organization, Partnership for Public Service (PPS), have joined together to lend their proven tools and techniques to this website to help you improve your hiring process.
Each has assisted Federal departments and agencies in improving their hiring. OPM utilized an end-to-end improvement process with special attention to a 45-day Non-SES hiring model [36.3 kb]. That model helped agencies identify the steps in their processes that tended to bog them down.
Meanwhile, PPS conducted a project called the Extreme Hiring Makeover where agencies tackled process redesign, marketing, recruiting, and assessment.
Both OPM and PPS would like to thank the Departments of Education (Federal Student Aid), Energy (National Nuclear Security Administration), Health and Human Services (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Personnel Management (Office of Human Resources) and the Small Business Administration.
From Soup to Nuts
So you want to make over your entire hiring process from beginning to end? The "Soup to Nuts" Makeover Template [465 kb] will take you step by step through the entire process. It's the next best thing to having your own consultant.
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Targeting Your Efforts
If your agency prefers to target a specific aspect of your hiring process but you’re not sure which one, ask yourself these questions. Do you need to:
- Shorten how long it takes to hire someone?
- Improve communication between Human Resources and hiring managers?
- Write job announcements that appeal to a larger pool of qualified applicants?
- Select candidates that better satisfy hiring managers?
- Measure whether your agency’s hiring is competitive with other sectors?
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Did you answer yes to one or two? |
Your agency may be a good candidate for improving its hiring process from beginning to end.
To start, consider these steps:
- Plan the project.
- Gather information.
- Analyze information.
- Develop improvement plan.
- Implement improvement plan.
- Measure success
For more detail on these steps, review the "Soup to Nuts" Makeover Template [465 kb].
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Your agency may benefit from targeted improvement efforts. To employ a targeted approach, select the section of the website where you'd like to focus:
• Prepare to Hire
Lay the groundwork for a successful hire before you even post a job.
• Recruit Top Talent
Expand your reach to attract a larger pool of qualified candidates.
• Select the Best
Identify the candidates who best fit your hiring needs.
• Measure Success
Assess both the efficiency and the effectiveness of your hiring process to feed its continuous improvement. |
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Tools
Here are several tools to help you better understand the issue and plan your approach to improving your hiring:
Strategies to Improve Federal Hiring [297 kb]
Actions you can take today
Hiring Process Checklist [180 kb]
A summary of the key process steps
Hiring Models
Focuses on the steps of the hiring process that are most visible to applicants
Hiring Process Analysis Tool
Flash [284 kb] | HTML [12 kb]
An interactive tool that helps you identify the areas of your hiring process most in need of improvement.
Focus Group Templates
Use these templates to solicit input from your various audiences during the initial analysis of your hiring process.
Reports on hiring “makeovers”
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
[275 kb]
- Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
[233 kb]
- Small Business Administration (SBA)
[247 kb]
- Extreme Hiring Makeover Case Studies
[233 kb]
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- U.S. Department of Education
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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