The Postal Service has more than 624,000 employees. Most are career employees with full federal benefits, but more than 93,000 are pre‑career employees, who tend to change jobs more readily as they decide whether working at USPS is right for them. Not surprisingly, this means having a good hiring process is important to ensure postal vacancies are filled on time and new employees are prepared to succeed.

Because hiring is so important to the Postal Service, we’ve issued several reports on hiring issues in recent years. In March, we gathered those reports together to create one of our Focus On features, Focus on Hiring. The goal of our Focus Ons is to provide one page on a specific topic where you can see all of our recent work and the key themes. You can find a list of our other Focus Ons here. 

Our reports on hiring have looked at the efficiency of USPS’s hiring process, the effort to fill supervisor vacancies, and how well the Postal Service is conducting background screening. We’ve also compared the Postal Service’s recruitment strategies for pre-career employees against best practices in the private and public sectors. Check out all the reports in the new Focus On. 

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Postscript:

Did you reach this because you are interested in applying for a job? Check out OIG job openings here and USPS job openings on usps.com.