Making Fed Jobs Easier to Find
By Allan Holmes | Monday, December 10, 2007 | 05:22 PM
By Allan Holmes | Monday, December 10, 2007 | 05:22 PM
To reach more job seekers, the Office of Personnel Management announced last week that it has made job vacancies in the federal government more accessible to Internet search engines, like Google and Yahoo. Before job vacancies could only be searched by keyword from on the federal government’s USAJOBS Web site. Now, a job seeker “who types in a job title on Google or other engines, such as "IT Specialist" or "Electrical Engineer,” will now also see links to federal vacancy announcements in those fields,” according to the OPM
That should make the 60,000 openings on USAJOBS a bit more accessible, although the site already gets 10 million visitors a month.
Comments
Of course the majority of the 300 jobs filled where I worked in Navy last year never made it to the OPM website because OPM encouraged, Systems Commands, like Naval Sea Systems Command demanded it, and the Naval Acquisition Career Center in Mechanicsburg under the prior Director decided to look the other way to violations of hiring laws. These jobs were announced as targeted recruitment, many as "Friends and Family" of the Systems Command. Bottom line was the Systems Commands controlled who was able to apply by developing what I and many other Human Resource experts considered a system of unfair and closed competition - veterans simply weren't allowed to apply, when they did somehow find out about the vacancy and apply, they weren't considered. Google searches sound fine, but don't get too excited if you are a job seeker.
Dan Diviney | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | 05:02 PMPlease take care with PII such as SSN on USAJOBS. Monster.com is running the site and much of the data were compromised a few months ago. I hope they are doing a better job of security. Having the jobs linked externally is a big improvement
Ron Richter | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | 11:51 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
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