Two Interesting Things From OPM Director Berry's Speech Yesterday

I was reading through OPM Director John Berry's speech at the Human Capital Management Forum yesterday, and while most of it's his fairly standard stump speech, two things stood out to me. First, Berry said:

Next, before the year is out, I hope to introduce recruitment and hiring reforms that will make us more aggressive in our outreach to the best potential candidates and more competitive with the private sector in our hiring methods and timelines. These reforms will make it easier for applicants to apply for our jobs and easier for hiring managers to hire the best and the brightest.

I'm not sure whether this will come in a stand-alone bill or whether it'll be part of a budget outline for next year released by the White House. But this was something Berry has promised to do. And so far, he's done a better job than many administration officials of meeting his deadlines, or at least getting within the ballpark of them.