RELATED January 29, 2026 test page January 26, 2026 Partnership for Public Service’s public comments on OPM’s “Streamlining Probationary and Trial Period Appeals” proposed rule January 21, 2026 At-Will Employment: What the Federal Government Can Learn from States Back to Reports Winning the Best and the Brightest: Increasing the Attraction of Public Service July 14, 2001 Carol Chetkovich of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government takes an in-depth look at how students in the nation’s public policy schools view the prospect of federal employment, how those views are formed and what the schools and the government can do to induce greater numbers of them to choose service in the federal government over the private sector. Download (409k)