Return to Article: DHS preparedness chief aims to recruit career managers
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DHS is not serious enough to recruit mid-level managers, as when they advertise positions, most do not include PCS benefits. So if they keep looking within defined geographical regions, and only hire folks within DHS you get a depleted human capital resource base and the vicious cycle of not enough career managers to hire, train and retain.
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DHS needs to go to Iraq and hire military officers and enlisted to fill all its vacant positions. These people are well qualified and know from experience what to expect from terrorists. Why does Mike have a problem?
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Well now I've heard it all. First OPM announces a to-do list March 10, 2006 in the Washington Post. The plan calls on federal agencies to:
Identify "career patterns" for the future, on the assumption that the era of the 30-year government career is fading and that agencies will need to be able to accommodate people who come and go from government; who prefer to work irregular schedules, share jobs or telecommute; who sign up for brief periods as project managers; or who come out of retirement to provide institutional knowledge. By June 1.
Now the head of the Homeland Security Department's Preparedness Directorate wants senior management positions to be filled by career employees who plan to stay with the department for a while.
Well Mr. Bush, Ms Springer, et al, which is it? Do you want vagabonds and vagrants who will come and go as Linda Springer stated in her new "career patterns for the future" or do you want "employees who plan to stay for a while"? Mr. Bush needs to fire more just the Defense secretary (although firing Rumsfeld was an excellent place to start).
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