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379 | Jennifer Pahlka: How Government Limped into the Digital Age

The Realignment

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How to Get a Government Job

The USDS team worked with OPM and they created a different process that allows for real assessment, not self assessment by other, in this case, web designers. And so you can get these certs that still may have either all or many veterans on the cert, but they're qualified veterans. And then the people actually want to hire them. So it's better for everybody. It's better for veterans. It'sbetter for the hiring manager. But that required a lot of breaking through this assumption that the way it's happening may not be perfect, but it's the only way that's legal. The reality is if you go back and look at the section of the US code that defines

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