Practical guides for modern hiring
Honest writing on AI in HR, structured interviews, compliance, retention, and the messy realities of building a hiring process that actually works.
Surviving a DCAA Floor Check: What Auditors Ask and How to Be Ready
A floor check is DCAA walking up to one of your employees, unannounced, and asking what they are working on right now. It is a live test of whether your timekeeping is real. Here is exactly what happens, what auditors ask, and how to make it a non-event.
Clearance Reciprocity and Crossovers: Moving a Cleared Hire Without Restarting the Investigation
When you hire someone who already holds a security clearance, you usually don’t need a fresh investigation. You need reciprocity. How clearance transfers and crossovers actually work, why they still take time, and what a small contractor can do to speed a cleared hire onboard.
Continuous Vetting and Trusted Workforce 2.0: What It Means for Your Cleared Employees
The old model reinvestigated cleared people every five or ten years. Continuous Vetting checks them constantly, in near real time, which changes what you watch for and what an alert actually means.
Staffing a GSA Schedule Contract: Mapping Candidates to Labor Categories
A GSA Schedule award is only as good as your ability to put qualified people against the labor categories you priced. The discipline is matching real candidates to LCAT minimums, and proving you did.
Incumbent Capture: Hiring the Existing Workforce During a Contract Transition
When you win a services contract someone else was running, the people already doing the work are your fastest path to a clean phase-in, and sometimes you are legally required to offer them their jobs. How to plan incumbent capture without blowing the schedule.
The Facility Security Officer (FSO): What the Role Is and When Your Contract Requires One
If you win a classified contract, the government expects a named Facility Security Officer running your security program. What the FSO actually does, when a small contractor is required to appoint one, and how the role connects to every cleared hire you make.