U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order related to reforming the hiring process for federal jobs in a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board in the East Room of the White House on June 26, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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On Friday, June 26, President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to make federal jobs more attainable by placing more emphasis on skillset and less on education achievement of a job candidate in the hiring process.
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“The federal government will no longer be narrowly focused on where you went to school, but the skills and the talents that you bring to the job,” the president said during the signing ceremony at the White House.
His daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump is the policy co-chair, and according to the president, was the leading force behind the order.
Applicants with college degrees will still be eligible to apply and receive said federal jobs, but it will no longer be a requirement for some job openings.
