""For the first time, your fitness for the job will be determined via a formal assessment rather than based upon whether you have a bachelor's degree or some minimum amount of work experience," Scott Kupor, the director of OPM, wrote in a blog about the change."
"The goal is to make higher education and experience at prior jobs one - but not the only - way to show competency as the government shifts more to relying on testing for actual skills."
"The new change, years in the making, has bipartisan support, unlike some of the administration's other revisions to government hiring that have garnered pushback from critics that say that they are politicizing the workforce."
The Office of Personnel Management has updated classification and qualification standards for technology employees, removing degree requirements. The new approach emphasizes skill assessments over traditional educational and experience criteria. This change aims to enhance government hiring practices by evaluating candidates based on their actual skills. The initiative has bipartisan support and is part of a broader movement towards skills-based hiring in government roles. OPM plans to revise standards for all occupational series and reduce the number of series to streamline the hiring process.
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