The holidays are supposed to be the “most wonderful time of the year”, but we all know they can be the most stressful too. Party hosting and gift giving is exhausting – and can put a financial strain on your budget. Please join Kaitlin Schaeffer Yardley, CFP® to plan ahead and reduce your financial stress during the holidays. We will discuss several strategies including: Staying organized; set your goals and budget now De...

December is an exceptionally busy time of year, both professionally and personally. You have to complete year-end tasks and reporting, all while managing the holidays. But a busy schedule shouldn't prevent you from planning for your career growth in 2022. Thinking about your career growth can be put on the back burner - but it shouldn't be.Join us online to learn from a government expert about how to prioritize your 2022 career goals and actua...

Will all of your Federal service be used to determine your retirement annuity? Join Bob Braunstein, Federal Benefits Specialist, to learn about: Understanding creditable, potentially creditable, and non-creditable service What counts and what doesn’t? What is my Retirement Service Computation Date (SCD) and is this the same as my Leave SCD? What is Term Federal Service? Temporary Federal Service? Does all of my service have to be within...

Acquisition Training for the Real World Fall 2021 Become an expert on GSA’s tools and digital services and how they can help improve your acquisitions Gain skills to improve the government’s buying power and reduce contract duplication Find out the latest information on Federal Marketplace initiatives Earn CLPs to maintain your certifications Acquisition Training for the Real World Fall 2021 is a two-week series of virtual training...

If you want to get ahead in your career, you need to improve your IT acumen. And the past 18 months have seen government organizations completely rethink how they meet their mission, from where they operate and what tools and processes they operate with. Leading those conversations is the government c-suite. From Chief Information Officers to Chief Data Officers, from HR to Acquisitions, the government is home to many different c-level execs w...

This Corporate Gray Military-Friendly Job Fair will be IN PERSON if circumstances allow. This event provides military-experienced job seekers the opportunity to interview with many employers face-to-face in just a few hours. Job Fair hours are 9:00 am to 12:00 Noon (ET). The event is open and free to all job seekers, including civilians. Pre-registration is required, and registered candidates will receive the Job Fair Employer Directory prior...

Long gone are the days where government agencies should rely on brick-and-mortar locations to respond to the needs of the constituents.Social messaging - using applications like Facebook or Twitter to interact with an organization - is replacing the phone as the preferred communication channel. During the pandemic, we saw those previously thought to be digitally excluded adopt social messaging as a way to stay in touch with their loved ones....

Innovation is a term that is thrown around a lot. We want our government agencies to be innovative, to be creative, to think outside the box, but agencies are also tasked with incredibly important missions that need stable and constant attention in order for them to be successful. Join us online to learn how you can instill small-scale innovation like process improvements, and creative rethinking of outdated practices into your work to add a s...

Federal Open Season is November 8, 2021 through December 13, 2021. Join Ray Kirk, Ph.D., Federal Benefits Specialist, to learn and prepare for the upcoming Open Season. Basic provisions of the FEHB and FSA programs Types of FEHB plans Important concepts in health insurance: types of plans, deductibles vs. co-pay, in-network benefits vs. out of network What you can do during Open Season

Don't let the mundane get in the way of the transformative. While agencies set their sights on digital transformation, government employees often spend too much time bogged down completing manual tasks like updating a website's look and feel, incorporating a chat bot or even digitizing paper processes.But it doesn't have to be that way. Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 13 from 2-2:45 p.m. ET/11-11:45 a.m. PT to learn from government and industry lea...