Shape an Appropriately Skilled and Ready Future Workforce: Improve Recruitment and Retention of the Civilian Workforce
Ms. Shawn Skelly
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Personnel and Readiness (DOD)
Zev Goldrich
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Civilian Personnel Policy (DOD)
Brynt Parmeter
Chief Talent Management Officer
(DOD)
Daniel Hester
Director
Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DOD)
The Department’s ability to deliver relevant and timely talent is critical to building enduring competitive advantages and achieving national security objectives. Attracting and retaining civilian candidates is vital to fulfill DoD’s mission. To address these challenges, by September 30, 2025, the Department will continue to advance the use of direct hiring authorities to maintain a minimum of 80% usage rates for DHA-eligible hires while further understanding the additional use of other priority authorities (to include veteran, military spouse, Schedule A, and intern program authorities), initiate test pilots to modify hiring processes that will reduce Time-to-Hire from 98 days to 85 days, improve hiring manager satisfaction by 5% to achieve a satisfaction rate of 80% or higher, double the current use of hiring and retention incentives, improve hiring selection rates by 3%, and assess impacts of these efforts by reducing civilian workforce attrition from 13% to 10%.
