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.