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A 6 page paper that reports and discusses the difficulties in recruiting, hiring and retaining public employees. The paper reports some innovations in recruiting. The paper discuses appraisal processes that may be used. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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were favors and paybacks with little or no honor attached. That system changed in some areas of public service but remains to this day in other areas of public service.
It should be no surprise that a governmental agency at any level in government would face challenges in recruiting, hiring and retaining really talented people. Who wants to be
known as a government employee when the reputation of these employees is lazy, slackers, incompetent and worse? Despite a lot of talk, it is still very difficult to fire a
public employee. However, if there is an economic downturn that is serious enough as it has been for the last two years, public employees will lose their jobs due to
cutbacks. Its called RIF, reduction in force, and it must be done with reason, using a strategy that can be justified. Nye (2001) reported that nearly a-half-million jobs were cut
at the federal level between 1990 and 2001. At the same time, there was an increase in state government employees (Nye, 2001). Todays college/university graduates are leaving the academic
world with skills and knowledge all companies need. Right now, there is a very high unemployment rate and many of these graduates are having trouble finding a position in their
fields but this will eventually turn around. Even if the jobs were available, one must ask why a talented individual would want to work in a federal government job at
$35,000 when that same person could earn $100,000 in the private sector (Nye, 2001). Even if a person were idealistic enough to want to serve, they are faced with the
bureaucracy of the system and questionable opportunities for advancement (Nye, 2001). At best, salaries for middle managers is at least 20 percent less in the government than in a private
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