{"id":1271,"date":"2025-06-02T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:00:35","slug":"office-of-personnel-management-new-merit-hiring-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/06\/02\/office-of-personnel-management-new-merit-hiring-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Personnel Management New Merit Hiring Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a Government Executive article by Erich Wagner \u2013 \u201cFederal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2025\/05\/opm-merit-hiring-plan-includes-bipartisan-reforms-politicized-new-test\/405687\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Office of Personnel Management\u2019s new merit hiring plan.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you help advance the president\u2019s executive orders and policy priorities in this role?\u201d asks one of four essay questions that job seekers must answer if they are seeking any federal position GS-5 or above. \u201cIdentify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This plan is looking at positions GS-05 and above. Although initially it is being discussed as building a single data base for all agencies to use when hiring.\u00a0 Many see problems with this plan and have questions such as \u2013 Is it Tied to Something Else Such as Schedule Policy\/Career Schedule F Conversions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPM Hiring Plan for All Federal Employees GS-05 and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/2025-06-02-OPM-Hiring-Plan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}