Section One:
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JOBS
I
f you are looking for a job where you
can develop your professional skills and
make a difference in the lives of others,
the government has a job for you. The federal
government needs to hire IT experts for 11,549
positions, engineers to fill more than 10,642 jobs
at the Departments of Defense and Transporta-
tion, NASA and more, and biological science
experts to fill 4,886 jobs at the Departments of
Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, EPA
and federal agency heads to create SWAT teams
and other agencies.
that will identify barriers to efficient hiring. Berry
By the fall of 2012, the federal government
wants to see more efficient hiring in place by mid
will hire nearly 273,000 workers for mission-crit-
December.
ical jobs, according to new projections in Where
One of the ways Berry plans to make hiring
the Jobs Are 2009: Mission-Critical Opportuni-
more effective is by creating central pools of
ties for America.
applicants from which all agencies can pull candi-
Most federal hiring will be concentrated in
dates. For example, say a number of departments
five professional fields: Engineering and Sci-
and federal agencies need engineers. Instead
ences, Medical and Public Health, Security and
of requiring a prospect to apply to each one
Protection, Compliance and Enforcement, Legal
separately, they could apply once to all agencies
and Program Management.
in need of their skills. The federal government
The total projected hiring will jump by
projects that in the next three years it will need
more than 40 percent during fiscal year 2010
to hire at least 10,712 engineers. To help you find
through 2012 compared to the three previous
who’s hiring, we took a closer look at where the
years.
government jobs are.
Because agencies need to hire quickly, the
Nearly one third of the 1.9 million member
process of standardizing the federal hiring
federal workforce is expected to retire or resign in
process is already underway. In June, the Of-
the next five years, translating to tens of thousands
fice of Personnel Management’s director, John
of job opportunities across government.
Berry, wrote a memo directing all department
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