Create more non-career appointee positions at the department
What the document says“Personnel Management should be engaged on ways to provide authorities for a higher number of non-career PA positions.”
The chapter says the White House personnel office can be inclined to discount the department's importance, but that given the political attention it generates it should understand the importance of finding talented political appointees to serve there.
What the document actually says“Personnel Management should be engaged on ways to provide authorities for a higher number of non-career PA positions.”
Work with the personnel agency. Get more posts that political staff can fill.
Most VA jobs are career jobs. A few are filled by the president's own picks. The book wants more of those.
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