Gearing Up For a New Class of PMFs

Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry has put out a notice to agencies that they have to figure out how many Presidential Management Fellows they'll need for next year, and make projections for 2011, by October 30. And he's issued a reminder that a bunch of current PMFs are still available for agencies to hire. I have a number of friends who have been Presidential Management Fellows, and they all seem to have had quite good experiences. But the fact that OPM needs to remind agencies that PMFs are prime candidates for full-time jobs is an indicator that agencies are still not perceiving the full range of possible candidate sources. That aperture should be as wide as is humanely possible: federal agencies are going to need all the great applicants from all the sources they can get.