Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hard-core unemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Survey of State Public Service Job Opportunities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hard-core unemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2228
Book Description
The New Public Service
Author: Paul C. LightPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815723578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
According to Paul C. Light's controversial new book, The New Public Service, this January's 4.8 percent federal pay increase will do little to compensate for what potential employees think is currently missing from federal careers. Talented Americans are not saying "show me the money" but "show me the job." And federal jobs just do not show well. All job offers being equal, Light argues that the pay increase would matter. But all offers are not equal. Light's research on what graduates of the top public policy and administration graduate programs want indicates that the federal government is usually so far behind its private and nonprofit competitors that pay never comes into play. Light argues that the federal government is losing the talent war on three fronts. First, its hiring system for recruiting talent, top to bottom, underwhelms at almost every task it undertakes. Second, its annual performance appraisal system is so inflated that federal employees are not only all above average, they are well on their way to outstanding. Third and most importantly, the federal government is so clogged with needless layers and convoluted career paths that it cannot deliver the kind of challenging work that talented Americans expect. None of these problems would matter, Light argues, if the government-centered public service was still looking for work. Unfortunately, as Light's book demonstrates, federal careers were designed for a workforce that has not punched since the 1960s, and certainly not for one that grew up in an era of corporate downsizing and mergers. The government-centered public service is mostly a thing of the past, replaced by a multisectored public service in which employees switch jobs and sectors with ease. Light concludes his book by offering the federal government a simple choice: It can either ignore the new public service and troll further and further down the class lists for new recruits, while hoping that a tiny pay in
How to Get a Job in the Federal Government
Author: Olivia CrosbyPublisher: Bureau of Labor Statistics
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Each year the federal government hires thousands new employees. If you are interested in working for the federal government the Summer 2004 issue of the Occupational Outlook Quarterly is the publication for you. This beautiful illustrated official government handbook describes the types of jobs available in the Federal civil service, the qualifications required, and how to apply for those jobs.
State and Local Government Quarterly Employment Survey
Author: Social Security Amendments of 1971: Written Testimony Received
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Planning for Nursing Needs and Resources
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Division of NursingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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