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Agency Snapshot: Department of State
As of March 31, 2012, the Department of State’s workforce consisted of 69,035 employees-10,631 Civil Servants (CS), 13,630 Foreign Service (FS) employees and 44,764 Locally Employed Staff (LE Staff). These employees promote and support the Department’s mission critical objectives both domestically or overseas at one of our 275 Missions. As mandated by the President’s hiring reform objectives, the Department of State has made great strides in incorporating hiring tools that facilitate increased Hiring Manager involvement in the hiring and recruitment process and streamlines the method of acquiring vacancy announcement details to ensure that both the Human Resources Specialist and the Hiring Manager indentifies critical facts quickly and efficiently. The Department has developed policy memorandum to enforce consistency in day-to-day hiring and recruitment operations and has developed standardized processes to reduce overall recruitment and hiring timeframes. The Department’s analysis of hiring reform goals and objectives is an ongoing process, the agency continues to create appropriate training opportunities, promote work-life balance tools, and will recognize excellence performance of its workforce accordingly. This website shows current hiring reform initiatives that are underway and progress being made in pursuit of the government-wide human resources agenda.
Key Initiatives
To achieve its mission the government must ensure that it is able to find and hire the best talent possible. We have terrific people in the Federal government. However we often miss out on talented individuals because the application and hiring process is so cumbersome and slow that people do not choose to apply for positions or they find other jobs before the hiring process is complete. The Administration has put speeding up and improving the hiring process to attract top talent high on its performance agenda in order to address this issue.
Attracting people to government service is only the beginning – agencies also must treat employees well in order to engage and retain talented individuals. To that end, agencies are continuing to work on promoting a healthy work-life balance and creating development opportunities to engage the workforce, improve employee well-being, and increase government performance.
We also must create a culture where employees strive to excel at performing their responsibilities. Agencies are working to create a culture where employees want to be, and can be, as effective as possible serving the public each and every day.
