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Information for Managers of Presidential Management Fellows: Why Should EPA Managers Hire Presidential Management Fellows?
Advantages of Hiring Presidential Management Fellows
- Presidential Management Fellows are hired through excepted service; decentralized hiring at EPA means that Office of Personnel Management is the only entity between managers and Presidential Management Fellows
- Because they are pre-screened, Presidential Management Fellows can be more easily selected and hired by a manager than by acquiring new staff through the competitive positions system (i.e. EZHire)
- All Presidential Management Fellows have a graduate degree (MPA, JD, PhD, etc.)
How is the Presidential Management Fellows Program different from the EIP?
- A manager can expect a Presidential Management Fellows to have at least a graduate degree and start at the GS-9 level.
- The hiring process is much more straightforward because Presidential Management Fellows are pre-screened by Office of Personnel Management's rigorous process for finalist selection
- A manager has more flexibility to work with the Presidential Management Fellows to customize the two-years to suit both the manager's and fellow's needs
- Generally, Presidential Management Fellows bring with them a valuable network of contacts and information sources from across the government
- Presidential Management Fellows and managers do not have to go through the EZHire process
Managers' Testimonials
Dan Fiorino, Director, Performance Incentives Division, Office of Business and Community Innovation, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation
"We have found the Presidential Management Fellows program to be a great way to find quality staff who are well-prepared, talented, and dedicated to effective public service."
Rob Brenner, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation
"OAR has hired a number of Presidential Management Fellows into our front office, and we have been consistently impressed. PMFs have shown initiative, dedication, learned quickly, worked efficiently with little supervision, and handled themselves with poise under pressure. In addition, the hiring process for Presidential Management Fellows is smoother than many other hiring mechanisms. We would love to see more Presidential Management Fellows in OAR in the future and recommend other EPA Offices look into filling their hiring needs through the Presidential Management Fellows program."
Michael J. Petruska , Director, Toxics Release Inventory Program Division Office of Environmental Information
"My experience has been that PMFs bring a broad policy perspective to EPA that supplements and compliments the skills of the many excellent scientists and engineers we have in the Agency. PMFs can provide the analytical support needed to articulate and measure the benefits of EPA programs."