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  First, stop thinking all felons are unqualified to scan luggage. There are approximately 7 million people a year in state and federal prisons, and atleast half of those are released every year. Now do some math and take that average over 10 years. We have individuals who haven't committed a crime again in 30+ years and poeple like you are wanting them to not have jobs, live on the street and let your tax dollars to continue to pay for their welfare support. Not all felony charges are a result of theft, robbery, murder, sex-offenses... Put yourself in that persons shoes before you discriminate against someone.

  Joe Posted June 3, 2009 2:16 PM
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  On the spot hiring doesn't allow for background checks. I wonder how many additional TSA airport screeners who are convicted felons would have been hired with on the spot authority. :-)

  Speed is great but mindless speed is dangerous.

  In any case, I doubt very much that breakneck speed will really solve the government's problem in hiring which OPM refuses to acknowledge exists. We can go and hire at job fairs and give on the spot offer letters but will young people accept and if they accept will they stay?

  My experience has been doubtful and probably not. You can't help with recruitment if you can't solve the retention problem for mid career federal employees.

  HR

  GovExec.com reader Posted June 22, 2004 4:05 PM
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  I have to agree with this story because as having served on active duty with the Marines for 12 years, I applied for civil servant jobs within the section that I worked and was told that I didn't possess any of the skills needed to do that job. I found that to be pretty ironic because I possessed all the necessary skills as a Marine to do that same job, but because I didn't match those infamous "key words" within the DoNHR Resumix system, I wasn't considered to be qualified. This continues to happen to other qualified candidates. I know of people with college degrees in their area of expertise who were found not qualified while others who have family in upper management positions always seem to to be able to find those "key words" and are able to get qualified. I don't see how anyone can argue that Resumix finds the most qualified candidate for job.

  GovExec.com reader Posted June 16, 2004 9:35 AM
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  John Palguta is absolutely right. I suggest a brief explaination each time the phrase "direct hire" is used. Direct Hire is not as simple a process as it might appear to a layperson or to many managers and was never intended to be used as the prime method of staffing. And Director James should be clear that the CIA is an excepted appointment agency, not a competitive appointment agency as most government agencies are. With all the time, effort, and money spent for the New York Job Fair, 10 hires is not a great return on investment.

  GovExec.com reader Posted June 14, 2004 8:51 PM
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  On the spot hiring must be a great idea for government managers . . . let's see, you hire my son and I'll hire your daughter. What a great way to circumvent title 5 statutes, 5 CFR regulations, all of the other OPM rules, agency collective bargaining agreements, not to mention those slippery crediting plans (now frequently replaced by even slicker Resumix "desired skill sets." The young people fighting the battles in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't actually believe what the military recruiters promised about veterans' preference, now did they?

  GovExec.com reader Posted June 14, 2004 10:49 AM