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I’m Angie Bailey, I’m the Deputy Associate Director for Recruitment and Hiring here at
the Office of Personnel Management. In a nutshell what I do is I provide personnel policy for
recruiting and hiring across the federal government to almost 2 million federal employees and
close to 15 million Americans who are also looking for federal employment. Personnel
policy for federal employees means that its things that cover all kinds of things like
how they apply for a position. If we have to run things like a reduction enforce how
would they be affected during an adverse kind of situation. So it runs the whole gamut of,
from everything from how their classified to how we recruit for them, how we hire, hire
them into their particular positions. I think one of the ways we are solving problems is
that we pull together some of the best talent that’s out there, and again a lot of it
sits right here at OPM, but then we collaborate and work a lot with the agencies and stuff
to kind of pull together and to come up, with what I think are creative solutions. So I
think that there is no better satisfaction then that, then knowing that you’re doing
the right thing. It’s not about the money, it’s not about the prestige, it’s not
about the position, it’s just really truly about delivering what you think is in the
best interest of the American public.
From a passion standpoint I think what makes it, for me what gives me passion is all of
the creativity and things. It’s kind of like the sky’s the limit. When you have
the ability to write the legislation, you have the ability to write the regulations
that 2 million federal employees follow, then to me policy work, while some may see it as
boring, to me I think it’s the coolest job of all because you have the ability to write
the future.