Trump's new federal hiring EO prioritizes quality over speed




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Summary: The president signed a new executive order late last week designed to improve, you guessed it, the federal hiring process. The EO encourages agencies to prioritize a job applicant's skills over their degree. And it instructs the Office of Personnel Management to review and revise outdated job classification standards. This isn't the first time an administration has used an executive order to try to improve federal hiring. But this one might be different. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko joined me with more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices