Recruiting a Representational & Competitive Public Service

Let's plan your strategy for the next three days! At HCMG, we want to make sure you are making the most of your precious time out of the office and at this interactive training. Take the benchmark survey and talk to your peers from other agencies to get a sense of where you and your team are ahead, where you can do a little better, and where you need to catch-up quick.

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Interested in chairing this morning? Contact Sponsorship Director Mark Barrett at 646 200 7494 or mark.barrett@wbresearch.com.

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Beth Cobert, Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, will talk about how innovation, collaboration, and data-driven decision making are essential to creating a talented, inspired, and motivated workforce.
A self-described data geek with nearly 30 years of experience in the private sector, Acting Director Cobert has inspired her team at OPM and human capital leaders across government to make data work for them and help guide the decisions they make every day. From directing the retooling of the USAJOBS employment portal to creating OPM’s Hiring Excellence Campaign to transforming employee engagement through UnlockTalent.gov, Acting Director Cobert is delivering on her determination to help agencies hire, develop, and retain a world-class Federal workforce.

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Losing quality talent to the private sector is not news to government hiring managers. The problem continues to magnify, however: as of this year Millennials are the most populous generation in the workforce, but they make up an alarmingly low percentage of the public sector. Agencies are rethinking recruitment to win quality hires, with strategies to address:
• Rebranding government to make it an inspiring place to work
• Hiring for changing skills and mission needs
• Smoothing bureaucratic hurdles to career advancements

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Joe Arata was brought to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to revitalize recruitment. As a leader of the widely recognized HERO program at ICE, Joe will share his take on building an inclusive workforce, including:
• Understanding recruitment as different from hiring
• Know your agency and the market space you are competing in
• Adapting outreach strategies to increase your desired candidate pool

No longer look at the past and guess about the future. Predict it!: Technology to enhance federal talent management has come a long way. Jim Gill from Cornerstone will discuss current challenges and possible solutions available today, including using cloud technologies to:
• Unify your Talent data in one place, providing the capability to use innovative analytics tools to make business decisions based on facts
• Identify specialized talent, use big data analytics to more effectively select new hires and promotions
• Manage the complete employee lifecycle in a unified solution from selection, development and leadership identification

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This year marked the first time Millennial adults outnumber the baby boomers. But getting Millennials to join the public sector is hard work - and when you get them here it is even harder to make sure they will stick around. Savvy leadership requires promoting and not resisting a change in culture that encourages communication and knowledge sharing to fill the generational gaps. This session will address what agencies are doing to:
• End short-sightedness in training your workforce
• Invest in new hires to avoid replacing them
• Build training and development to address differences in learning methods

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Agencies across the federal government are grappling to address cyber security issues - and your team is pressured to recruit and develop the workforce to do so. Issues on the tables of hiring and development strategists include:
• How to effectively train and develop a cyber workforce
• How to educate our hiring managers
• How are we partnering with IT in recruitment and development
To request an invitation, contact Program Director: Zainab.Hayat@wbresearch.com.

1. HR's Impact on the Positive Customer Experience
LaJuanna Russell, Founder and President, Business Management Associates
Vicki Hoard PMP, LSSMBB, CSM, Director, Programs and Operations, Business Management Associates

2. Understanding HR Stat: Importance of Data Driven Metrics in Improving Agency Performance
Jack Malgeri, Co-Chair, HR Stat Community Practice

3. Is Your Agency Reaching In to Connect With Employees?
Nichole Pinkney, Assistant Director, Headquarters Operations (Employee Engagement), National Aeronautics and Space Administration

4. How Can Federal Leaders Influence the Millennial Workforce?
Kermit Howard, Director, Strategic Human Capital Planning and Accountability, Department of Interior

5. Courting Inclusion: Working With Your Diversity & Inclusion Office to Build a Representational Workforce
Junish Arora, Senior Program Manager, Diversity & Inclusion, Department of Homeland Security

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Executive Director of The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Dr. Karl Reid, shares how NSBE is creating new opportunities for black youth in America by preparing them for careers in engineering. The key is making sure these students are proficient in math during milestone years while helping them see themselves as engineers of the future. This ability to get a glimpse of one’s “probable future” builds their self-efficacy and greatly impacts the futures of African American students. Hear how NSBE, one of the largest student-governed associations based in the US, is preparing the future of black engineers through fun, educational experiential programs led by NSBE’s engineering students, educators, seasoned technical professionals and partners from some of our nation’s leading school districts and corporations.
During this talk, Dr. Reid will share:
• Research that proves self-efficacy is a critical component to persistence in STEM fields
• How NSBE’s programs have increased participants’ science, math and vocabulary skills
• How early childhood experiences shaped his engineering aspirations
• How strategic partners have leveraged the program as a part of their STEM pipeline future workforce initiatives

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