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Assistive AI in Action: Real Use Cases for Smarter, Safer Public Sector HR
We’ll explore how HR teams are using AI to reduce manual workload, improve consistency across responses, increase speed without sacrificing quality and shift from reactive work to more strategic focus. If you’re evaluating AI but need a practical, safe starting point—this session will give you one.
Top 5 Public Sector HR Trends of 2026: Exploring the New Report
Public sector HR teams are operating in a new reality defined by workforce shortages, constrained budgets, and constant change. In this webinar, we’ll break down the five key trends identified in NEOGOV’s new report, Top 5 Public Sector HR Trends of 2026.
From Transactional to Transformational: Building an Employer Value Proposition That WorksFrom Transactional to Transformational: Building an Employer Value Proposition That Works
Join us as we break down a practical framework for strengthening EVP through three key areas: People, Purpose, and Process. You’ll hear real examples of what works, where organizations get stuck, and how small changes can create meaningful improvements across the employee lifecycle.
HR as a Strategic Partner: What It Really Looks Like in Local Government
Watch Nicole Carlson, Executive Advisor at NEOGOV and former local government HR leader, as she breaks down the five defining questions that separate administrative HR from strategic partnership — and the practical shifts that strengthen organizational impact.
Smarter Hiring for Government HR: AI in Action
As public sector agencies continue to face prolonged vacancies, growing applicant volume, and increased pressure to deliver results with limited resources, HR leaders are asking an important question: How can government hiring become faster, more effective, and more sustainable—without compromising fairness or accountability? In this timely webinar, Smarter Hiring for Government HR: AI in Action, we’ll explore how purpose-built, assistive AI is being applied across government hiring workflows to reduce manual effort, improve candidate reach, and support more confident decision-making. Join us for a practical look at how AI-enabled capabilities are helping HR teams modernize responsibly.
Recruiting’s Top 5 Disruptors and Emerging Leading Practices
Recruiting is being reshaped by more than AI. Skills-based expectations are shifting qualification standards. Remote work has expanded your talent market — and your competition. Fairness and transparency scrutiny are increasing. And candidate experience now directly affects hiring outcomes.
What 23 Million Applications Reveal About Fair Hiring in Government
Public sector organizations play a crucial role in shaping equitable access to opportunity and representation across the workforce. The 2025 Diversity Report webinar explores the latest findings from over 23 million job applications submitted between January 2022 and June 2025, alongside comparative insights from U.S. Census Bureau data. This year’s report highlights both progress and persistent challenges in public sector hiring equity. Attendees will gain data-driven insights into how diversity trends are evolving across key job categories, salary levels, and hiring stages. The session will uncover where representation is increasing and where systemic barriers still exist, especially in higher-salary roles and managerial positions. In addition to reviewing the data, the webinar will outline actionable strategies agencies can adopt to build more equitable hiring practices. From skills-based qualification reviews to structured interviews and bias-mitigation techniques, participants will leave equipped with practical steps to drive measurable DEI outcomes within their own organizations. Join us to learn how data can inform meaningful progress toward a more inclusive public workforce and what you can do to close the representation gap.
Smarter Hiring Starts Here: How Public Sector HR Can Turn Data Into Action
The public sector doesn’t have a talent shortage—it has a data problem. While private employers move quickly with analytics and automation, many agencies remain stuck in reactive mode, relying on outdated processes that keep qualified candidates out of reach. This session is your roadmap to change. We’ll explore the five stages of HR data maturity, from basic tracking to insight-driven strategy, and show how forward-thinking agencies are using real-time tools to drive better hiring outcomes. You’ll also get a first look at NEOGOV’s early AI innovations—built to help public sector HR teams work more efficiently and more confidently take action with data-baked insights. Whether you're starting your data journey or ready to level up, this session delivers practical strategies to help you modernize your hiring approach and lead with data.
The Hopeful Horizon of Recruitment: 2025 Public Sector Hiring Trends
Understanding the dynamic shifts in the recruitment landscape is paramount for public sector agencies seeking resilient hiring success in a tough market. This webinar, based on NEOGOV’s 2025 Public Sector Hiring Report, will explore five key trends in the 2025 hiring landscape. We’ll use data-driven insights to highlight significant shifts impacting public sector hiring and share actionable tips to help HR professionals improve recruitment strategies. Attendees will learn how government agencies and job seekers alike are approaching today’s job market – and how you can navigate the future of public sector recruitment with confidence.
6 Creative Ways to Improve the New Hire Onboarding Experience
Onboarding can be easy to overlook when you’re considering how to engage and retain employees. It may seem like a small part of their overall experience, but it actually sets the foundation for a strong culture and long-lasting relationships between new hires and your organization. In this webinar, we’ll explore innovative ways you can transform your onboarding process, from mentorship programs and resource portals to fun activities and more. Plus, your industry HR peers from Fresno County, CA, and Lake Washington Institute of Technology will share how their improved onboarding processes have transformed the new hire experience at their organizations.
Top 5 Public Sector HR Trends In 2025
The 2025 Trends webinar explores the top trends in government HR based on survey data from over 1000 government HR professionals, representing hundreds of thousands of FTEs. Filled with peer insights, relevant analyses, and helpful resources, this webinar will help you understand the government HR landscape in 2025 and refine your strategic priorities. =Together we’ll take an in-depth look at the top trends shaping public sector HR in 2025.
Reframing Retention: Strategies to Attract and Sustain Top Talent in the Public Sector
NEOGOV’s “Reframing Retention: Strategies to Attract and Sustain Top Talent in the Public Sector” webinar will equip public sector human resource professionals with actionable insights for improving employee retention. We’ll dive into what drives turnover and share exactly how to position your agency as an “employer of choice.”
The Fragile Future of Public Sector Recruitment: NEOGOV’s 2024 Hiring Report
NEOGOV’s 2024 Hiring Report webinar will reveal the fragile future of public sector recruitment through an analysis of 45 million public sector job applications and surveys from over 700 HR professionals and job seekers nationwide. After digging into the data, this webinar will outline a path forward and offer government agencies strategies to expand job sourcing, improve job positioning, enhance appeal, and optimize hiring processes.
Overcoming HRIS Hurdles: Lessons from Annapolis and Mountain Village
Join Carrie Kramer from the City of Annapolis and Jaime Holmes from the Town of Mountain Village as they share their experience with different HR administration processes. They’ll discuss their current and previous HRIS systems including what worked, what didn't, and how they got to their efficent processes they use today.
How Configurable Software Simplified Performance Management at Manatee County Sheriff's Office
In public service, performance management is never simple – and Manatee County Sheriff’s Office struggled on a daily basis with complex public safety processes. From tracking various evaluation cycles to updating position and manager changes, to organizing spreadsheets and paper forms – everything about performance management was overly manual and wildly inefficient for staff, supervisors and HR alike. In this impactful webinar, learn firsthand from Julie Beckwith, HR Manager at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, how NEOGOV’s performance management solution, Perform, helped the agency save over 2,100 hours of manual HR work with automated processes.
Transform Public Sector Hiring with Proactive Recruitment: The State of Iowa’s Success Using Attract
As 71% of public sector agencies continue to grapple with staffing shortages, the question arises: How can your agency stand out to job seekers in today’s competitive landscape? In this timely webinar, we’ll explore Attract’s pivotal role in helping the State of Iowa take a proactive approach to recruitment and find greater success in the post-pandemic era. Join us to hear firsthand how embracing innovative solutions helped the State boost applications by 17%. You’ll get an inside look at their streamlined recruitment process and discover how Attract improves candidate management, sourcing, and event communications.
Top 5 Public Sector HR Trends in 2024
The 2024 Trends webinar explores the top trends in government HR based on survey data from over 775 government HR professionals, representing hundreds of thousands of FTEs. Filled with peer insights, relevant analyses, and helpful resources, this webinar will help you understand the government HR landscape in 2024 and refine your strategic priorities.
Diversity in Public Sector Recruitment: From Data to Strategy
Join NEOGOV’s exclusive webinar to dive into the groundbreaking insights of our 2023 Diversity Report. With an in-depth analysis of 16.8 million public sector candidates, you’ll discover critical trends in the representation of race, ethnicity, and gender across public sector salaries and job categories.
Adapting for Excellence: The Future of Policy and Procedure Management
The workplace has been changing rapidly since the pandemic. Labor shortages have affected agencies across the country, and the introduction of AI tools is rapidly changing the workplace. Policy and procedure management is evolving from a bureaucratic necessity into a tool that can help drive innovation, efficiency, and excellence at all levels of your agency.
The Quiet Crisis in 2023: What Government Job Seekers Actually Want
The public sector continues to face an unprecedented hiring crisis. Since last year alone, the number of applications per job has decreased by 17%. How can agencies recover and start filling critical roles? We’ll address this question and more in the Quiet Crisis Webinar, using data from 45M+ government applications, 850+ job seekers, and 130 HR professionals.
NextGen HR: Harnessing Data to Demonstrate Strategic Value and Justify More Budget
Working in Public Sector HR is a crucial role, but it can feel overwhelming with many tasks that need immediate attention. In this session we will equip you with knowledge and tools to strategically leverage your talent data. Together we will dive into which data points are important to analyze and then discuss proven strategies that you can use to present data-driven insights to key stakeholders. These tools will enable you to advocate for additional budget and resources and position your team to have a strategic seat at the table.
Operational Efficiency: Mastering Employee Data with an HRIS
Operational efficiency is the art of doing more with less. It equips your agency to deliver high-quality services at scale with as few resources as possible. But how do you get started? In this webinar, we’ll discuss operational efficiency and how you can optimize one of the most inefficient processes facing government HR today – managing employee information (i.e. time and attendance, benefits, payroll, etc.)
How to Boost HR Efficiency While Improving the Employee Experience
Join our experts to learn how you can boost HR efficiency and improve your employee experience. We will discuss common challenges, the costs/consequences of a negative employee experience, and provide you with strategies and tools to build a foundation of engaged, motivated, and fulfilled employees.
Top Five Public Sector HR Trends for 2023
The 2023 Trends webinar explores the top trends in government HR based on survey data from 725 government HR professionals, representing hundreds of thousands of FTEs. Filled with peer insights, relevant analyses, and helpful resources, this webinar will help you understand the government HR landscape in 2023 and refine your strategic priorities.
The Quiet Crisis: Research and Best Practices for Hiring and Recruiting
Since 2021, there has been a 45% increase in public sector job openings and a 56% decrease in applicants per job. To find answers, we surveyed HR directors and job seekers. The surprising results, and strategies to overcome these challenges, are yours in our comprehensive report, The Quiet Crisis in the Public Sector.
How the Public Sector is Reigniting Engagement & Creating a Culture of Learning
In the public sector and higher education, employee reviews are valuable tools that can boost employee focus and foster growth, but many agencies lack the bandwidth and resources to leverage them. Find out how small and large organizations across the country are combining the latest performance management techniques with trackable learning tools that reignite employee engagement and redefine learning.
6 Key Findings from the 2021 Diversity in Public Sector Hiring Report
The 2021 Diversity in Public Sector Hiring Report identified where the drop-offs take place in the recruitment process by race, ethnicity, and gender. Watch our on-demand webinar to learn about six of the key insights revealed in the report, including the 58% drop-off between eligible Black female candidates and eligible White male candidates, how blinding Personally Identifiable Information (PII) can make your recruitment process more inclusive, and the stage of the recruitment process that sees the biggest drop-off of eligible minority candidates.
Using Student Loan Forgiveness to Attract Candidates
Now more than ever, there is a drastic decline in applicants for open public sector jobs. The ability to recruit and actively engage the best and most qualified candidates with such a small talent pool has never been more crucial. Since 2021, there has been a 45% increase in public sector job openings and a 56% decrease in applicants per job. These trends inspired NEOGOV to speak to both HR directors and job seekers to learn more about this quiet crisis. Current job applicants shared that the opportunity to do meaningful work and having a good benefits package far outweighs salary when considering a career in the public sector. Public Service Loan Forgiveness has undergone recent changes and is now one most valuable employee benefits out there. This webinar, in partnership with Summer, the leading digital student loan solution, we will unpack the challenges in public sector hiring and how to use the Public Service Loan Forgiveness to attract job candidates.
9 Steps to Remove Bias & Promote Diversity at Every Stage of the Hiring Process
Partnering with IPMA-HR, we shared some of the latest approaches public sector and higher education organizations can use to attract highly qualified, diverse applicants and ensure they are fairly evaluated by eliminating blindspots where bias exists.
Workforce Transformation: Tracking & Managing the New Normal
In today’s dynamic public sector, workplace changes that would typically take decades to happen are now happening overnight – and HR processes are no exception. For many HR teams, moving away from manual, paper-based processes is crucial to creating a more efficient and effective workforce that can keep up with the “new normal.” Join us to learn best practices from our team of HR experts on process management and employee tracking.
It Starts with HR. Tips to Improve Your Workforce’s Resilience and Well-Being
During this unprecedented and uncertain time, the role of HR within organizations has shifted. It is not uncommon for HR roles to have expanded into taking on the responsibility of cultivating resilience and reducing stress within our teams and our entire public sector workforce. This on-demand webinar, presented by guest speaker Julius Rhodes (former HR Director of Cook County, IL), will offer strategies to help you overcome some of the challenges you face and will ensure you are in the best position to move forward with resilience. You will be provided with tactics and strategies to implement to overcome the obstacles you face within the workplace and at home. These strategies will set your workforce up for success as we face uncertainty ahead.
7 Ways to Maximize Employee Potential
By arming managers with the tools they need to effectively coach their employees, government agencies and higher education institutions will drive development in their organization. We partnered with IPMA to host a webinar to teach public sector organizations 7 Ways to Maximize Employee Potential Through Coaching and Feedback.
GovHRTalks: How to Boost Your Recruitment, Retention, and Workplace Culture
Public sector HR departments are in constant competition with the private sector for talented and diverse applicants. Join NEOGOV for the second GovHRTalks webinar as we discuss solutions in recruitment, retention, and workplace culture.
GovHRTalks: Illinois Experts Talk Talent Attraction & DEI
Talent acquisition, recruitment, and retention are the top issues facing Illinois’ public sector HR professionals. While everyone is talking about the Great Resignation, what isn’t being discussed are proven solutions. In this inaugural GovHRTalks event, you’ll hear from national industry experts from Illinois as they delve into the growing challenge of sourcing and landing diverse candidates in a tight labor market.
Navigating the Unique Needs of NY State Civil Service Recruitment
New York State has specific hiring requirements that make the recruitment process lengthy and cumbersome. However, there are ways the process can be improved to reduce the burden on HR and accelerate the speed of hiring. Former public sector HR veteran and Director of Product, Michelle Cline, will walk you through how your organization can save time and remain compliant by streamlining and automating the process.
Walk a Mile in Your Candidate's Shoes: 6 Tips for Improving the Candidate Experience
From the first impression to the last, public sector agencies begin losing viable candidates the moment they post a position. The funnel shrinks with every step in the process because of seemingly unnecessary steps, poor communication, and a lack of process and automation. In a tight job market where the public sector is competing with the private sector for candidates, organizations can’t afford to make these mistakes. The candidate experience is essential for public sector recruiting success.
COVID-19 Public Sector HR Roundtable
At NEOGOV, we understand the power of a strong community and feel it is essential to come together to share ideas in times like these, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across our communities. To support you and leverage the power of the public sector community, we assembled a Community Roundtable in order to share best practices, lessons learned, and our plans for moving forward in response to COVID-19.
The Battle for Talent: Inside the Trends & Challenges Facing Public Sector HR Leaders
Competition for talent has reached a fever pitch thanks to demographic and social forces. New research from NEOGOV, in collaboration with National Association of State Chief Administrators (NASCA) and Accenture, suggests that as the public and private sectors battle for talent, state government is falling too far behind in preparing for the workforce of the future. To close the gap—and attract the best talent—government organizations must start making bold moves today.
Fuel Virtual Learning Summit
Fuel is a virtual event designed to help public sector professionals power the work they do every day. Over two focused days, attendees will gain practical training on the tools they use daily, hear new ideas from industry leaders, and connect with peers who face the same challenges.
