Talent Hunt
I'm in Williamsburg, Va. for the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council annual Executive Leadership Conference. It's a big event, with hundreds of industry and government folks in attendance.
I've been focusing on the workforce-related sessions, and one theme that I've noticed so far is the challenges involved in managing the changing demographics of the workforce. More than one person has noted that this is an opportune moment for the government to be in the market for new talent. Given the country's economic situation, there are likely to be a lot of people in the market for stable, rewarding work.
Of course, as Paul Light (who'll be speaking here later) has noted, it's tragic that the government has to rely on a recession to improve its hiring prospects.
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Lets see there are 1,000 of applicants for every job posting can't wait for Light to comment.
dan ketter Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:59 PMFed jobs have always been the most sought after "its a job for life"
Are you absolutely serious! You can start by examining and re-organizing the stymied federal hiring process. I can bet that the federal government has plenty of applicants within its own hiring pool, but they are either discouraged from applying or are blocked from applying due to current anomalies in an antiquated and bureaucratically laden hiring process. When federal employees can’t even apply for positions at other agencies or within their current agency because of “good ol’ boy” tactics and practices that allow the posting of ghost announcements for positions that are unofficially filled within prior to their announcement, how can anyone expect an outsider to continually apply for federal positions when they discover they are being slighted as a pawn to the federal hiring process when position announcements provide this deceptive cloak?
FedUp Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:14 AM