White House Launches Techie Recruitment Effort

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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The White House is looking for enlistees into the Service; The US Digital Service that is. There is a serious recruitment drive under way to get the best of the best in the IT/Tech industries to spend two years in the service of the country. There will be fighting, but it will be against inefficient systems and bureaucracy that is jamming up the government tech systems.

“It’s truly a national effort,” said Jennifer Anastasoff, a San Francisco-based recruiter for the team. She says they’ve been recruiting in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and other cities. “Any startup would kill to have the kind of people we already have.”
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“Any startup would kill to have the kind of people we already have.”
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I doubt that given the typical pay/perks.

“The private sector has a leg up in the perks they can offer. We wish, as the federal government, [that] we could pay for dry cleaning and free lunches, but we can’t. We can’t compete on perks,” said Haley Van Dyke, the U.S. Digital Service’s chief of staff. “What we can offer, in a much larger way, is mission. The projects we’re working on are wildly meaningful and offer tangible improvements to peoples’ lives.”
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And the ball drops..Newsflash lady, Talent isn't interested in a "mission" if it doesn't pay. Pony up the pay and the perks or accept that you will always have the people who couldn't get the good jobs.
 
This would look great on your resume if you are starting out. If they have any benefits like tuition reimbursement or similar, might help if the pay isn't industry grade.
 
for this administration? so I can hack into journalist's computers who speak out against them?
 
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