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  Convert Term Employees to Permanent based on Performance

  There should be a way for term people to convert to permanent people based on performance. If a person is fully successful in their position, and the agency wants to hire a permanent person for that position there should be a way to convert the term person. It is extremely inefficient for the government to spend time and resources processing a new job advertisement, holding interviews, processing a new candidate for the ...more »

  There should be a way for term people to convert to permanent people based on performance. If a person is fully successful in their position, and the agency wants to hire a permanent person for that position there should be a way to convert the term person. It is extremely inefficient for the government to spend time and resources processing a new job advertisement, holding interviews, processing a new candidate for the position and then training a person if they already have a fully trained and successful person in the position. If the term person is selected as the candidate after the current process, then the government wasted time and money in the advertisement and interview stages. If the term person is fully successful for the position but did not qualify to interview solely because a veteran applied, then government wasted all of the resources and time it used to train the term employee to be an asset to the organization.

  If term employees are doing a great job, why should the government let them go when they want a permanent person for the same position? If the term person is not fully successful in their position, then I can understand holding additional interviews. However, the way the current system is set up allows people who have proven themselves to be an asset be let go of.

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  Supply Care Packages for all Federal Employees to Save Money

  Every government office worker should receive a six month care package of supplies twice a year that would accommodate the work that was being done. This would include discretionary supplies such as pens, pencils, highlighters, binder clips, paperclips, post its, post it flags, manila folders and notebooks, etc. We did a cost analysis in our office of how much money we spent on discretionary supplies and how much was ...more »

  Every government office worker should receive a six month care package of supplies twice a year that would accommodate the work that was being done. This would include discretionary supplies such as pens, pencils, highlighters, binder clips, paperclips, post its, post it flags, manila folders and notebooks, etc. We did a cost analysis in our office of how much money we spent on discretionary supplies and how much was being used on a per person basis. By looking at the numbers and deciding, based on usage, how much supplies should be ordered, we were able to come up with how much of each category should be given to each employee to last them throughout the year. This enabled us to make sure that certain employees weren’t hoarding the supplies, which in the past forced us to order more for others that did not get their share. Monitoring the discretionary supplies and limiting each person’s usage will help us save money. Although we have projected savings for our office, we do not know the exact year end outcome because this is the first year we are trying care packages for the staff.

  A goal across the federal government is to become less paper oriented. However, until the culture is changed to become paperless, people will still have a need for these supplies. When we do become paperless we will show savings in paper of course, but it will also trickle down to the rest of the supply budget as well. In the meantime, creating care packages takes less staff time, as opposed to ordering a few small orders each month, and is more efficient in the long run because it limits supply orders to twice a year. This idea can be easily duplicated in each office throughout the government. It also enables us to create more specific administrative budget requests. Reducing over consumption of supplies also promotes an environmentally sustainable environment. Finally, based off of last year’s numbers and our current year projections, we will save money.

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