OPM’s FY27 staffing guidance calls on agencies to prioritize early-career and technology talent, expand shared hiring, strengthen skills-based assessments, and improve workforce planning and accountability.
ApplyGov helps federal agencies turn FY27 hiring priorities into measurable results.
With our FedHire talent acquisition system, agencies can:
Give lean HR teams more capacity by automating manual work and connecting position development, assessment, hiring, and selection in one system.
Enhance mission-critical hiring initiatives by aligning positions, competencies, assessments, and hiring strategies to Mission-Critical Occupations (MCOs).
Expand the reach of mission-critical opportunities with FedHire MCO tags that can help vacancies populate government-wide USAJOBS portals for AI, Cybersecurity, Federal Tech, STEM, National Security, and other priority talent communities.
Put shared certificates to work by Onboarding qualified candidates from OPM-led pooled hiring actions to sharing your certificates with other agencies, giving your hiring teams access to qualified candidates from existing competitive hiring actions while reducing duplicative recruitment and accelerating hiring.
Strengthen skills-based hiring by defining modern roles and competencies for AI, cyber, data, software, cloud, and other critical skill areas and connecting them to validated assessments that measure what candidates can actually do.
Start with better positions by modernizing Position Classification and Job Analysis around the skills, competencies, and workforce needs of today's mission.
Track progress against Annual Staffing Plan goals with flexible analytics and reporting across early-career hiring, shared certificate selections, validated assessments, MCOs, and other workforce priorities giving leaders visibility into how they are performing against the plan.