The Veterans Health Administration has continued its hiring spree well into the summer, with 23,000 new employees now on board since the pandemic’s beginning in March. Thanks to a new, shortened onboarding process,�the agency saw a net increase of 8,000 new employees so far this fiscal year, with two-thirds of those new hires occurring since the end of March, VHA officials told Congress this week. Before the pandemic, VHA’s average time-to-hire was about 94 days. But during the health crisis, the agency has been hiring and onboarding within 10-to-12 days. In some cases, new hires are starting work within three days, Steven Lieberman, VA’s acting principal deputy...
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