WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Office of Personnel Management(OPM) announces that their Human Resources Solutions’ USA Staffing^® Onboarding platform is the winner of the 2020 Igniting Innovation Awards, hosted by the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC). The awards recognize groundbreaking technologies that enhance services for citizens and government operations. USA Staffing Onboarding won with 68% of the vote.

“I am very proud of the OPM employees on USA Staffing’s onboarding team. Their hard work and dedication are a great credit to the agency. USA Staffing Onboarding is a leading example of OPM’s ongoing efforts to help Federal agencies work efficiently to better serve the American people,” said OPM Acting Director Michael Rigas. “Solutions like this will help us build the workforce of the future.”

USA Staffing’s Onboarding was also one of two finalists selected by a panel of judges to receive the “Transformer Award,” which recognizes innovations that repurpose existing solutions in a new or different way, resulting in new or broadened applicability and uses.

USA Staffing facilitates the hiring process from recruitment through entry on duty. The program’s onboarding capability was built to meet agency needs for an automated, streamlined and standardized process for new hires and HR professionals. It is seamlessly integrated with USA Staffing’s main staffing functions and is highly configurable to accommodate agencies’ unique business processes.

Designed to efficiently onboard new hires in ordinary times, this fully online, automated solution proved instrumental in helping Federal agencies adapt to COVID-19.

For more information about USA Staffing, please visit www.opm.gov/usastaffing