Jeffrey Neal, the personnel chief for the Homeland Security Department, faces the most daunting hiring challenge in the federal government: The department must hire more than 65,700 employees by the end of fiscal 2012 — the most of any federal agency, according to estimates from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
Bringing that many people onboard will require a hiring overhaul at the department, where component agencies now use multi-varied hiring systems that don't share information. They also don't collect data needed to find and break up logjams in the notoriously slow hiring process.
To do this, the department has started rolling out a new end-to-end hiring system called TalentLink, provided by San Francisco's Taleo Corp. The department started this year using the system at its headquarters offices, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Office of the Inspector General. It more recently started ... to read the entire article, click HERE.
Bringing that many people onboard will require a hiring overhaul at the department, where component agencies now use multi-varied hiring systems that don't share information. They also don't collect data needed to find and break up logjams in the notoriously slow hiring process.
To do this, the department has started rolling out a new end-to-end hiring system called TalentLink, provided by San Francisco's Taleo Corp. The department started this year using the system at its headquarters offices, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Office of the Inspector General. It more recently started ... to read the entire article, click HERE.
