More on OPM's Job Registry
In following up to Thursday's <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/07/nixing_federal_job_registers.php?oref=latest_posts">post</a>, <em>Federal Times</em> <a href="http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100729/PERSONNEL02/7290301/1001">reports</a> that Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry has no intention of cancelling the agency's centralized hiring registry program. Berry's comments come one day after an OPM official said that in the seven months since OPM launched its hiring register program -- part of which focuses on IT hiring -- agencies have only hired 71 of about 106,000 qualified job candidates from the registers.
In following up to Thursday's post, Federal Times reports that Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry has no intention of cancelling the agency's centralized hiring registry program. Berry's comments come one day after an OPM official said that in the seven months since OPM launched its hiring register program -- part of which focuses on IT hiring -- agencies have only hired 71 of about 106,000 qualified job candidates from the registers.
"We have no intention of surrendering after one year," Berry told Federal Times. "I'm concerned that it's not been as successful as we would have liked. But we recognize that we can't throw it out after one year. We're going to stick with this."