New Ways of Thinking? Federal Agency Hiring Processes

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Permalink Reply by Ed Powell on August 23, 2010 at 4:37pm

It's encouraging (I think!), to have a sitution where one person got one job in the U.S. Federal Government by one agency (VA) doing a search of available resumes on a commercial data base.

To a recruiter in industry, this would be a "HO! HUM!, so what!" moment because it happens everwhere on a daily basis. Monster, Hot Jobs and Careerbuilder, together, have about a GAZILLION resumes on their resume databases. However, in the U.S. Federal Government, resume search is HOT NEWS!!

However, doesn't the government's own USAJOBS have MILLIONS of taxpayers resumes. These motivated candidates have demonstrated an interest in working for the federal government by adding their resume to the official federal government resume data base? How many agency recruiters are actually searching and data mining those resumes to identify potential candidates for their vacancies? How many people have been hired from this valuable government-owned resource?

I would be interested in hearing from agency recruiters...

Do you search for candidates on the USAJOBS resume data base? If yes, how effective was this tool? If no, why not?

Permalink Reply by Donald Fitchett on September 7, 2010 at 1:26pm

In our industry, the newest form of finding the best person for the job is LInkedIn. I'll have to search to see if Gov is utilizing that valulable resource.