Ahhhh…small talk. Some people just hate the concept in itself. But in reality, you need to be good at small talk in order to get things done. It helps you build rapport before meetings, between colleagues, and across functions which in the end contributes to the main goal (getting projects done in government) Personally whenRead… Read more »
I was honored to ask to speak at the USAJOBS Vendor Summit on the topic of the Future of Government Recruitment. Was a great crowd of really smart HR professionals. Here’s the presentation from the event. Government Recruitment Landscape (8 10-11) View more presentations from GovLoop. Favorite
Top 5 – How to Conduct an Informational Interview About three years ago, I conducted an extensive job search. As part of that job search, I held probably 40 information interviews. Well, now life reverses its course and I’ve been helping folks out recently as I’ve been the interviewee on the information interview. As such,Read… Read more »
Ressler’s Rules # 9: “It is OK to be stupid and it is OK to be arrogant, just don’t be both” Let me start this discussion with a bit of a digression – During the Vietnam War the phrase “Fragging” was coined to describe the practice of injuring or killing a superior officer who wasRead… Read more »
Recently GovLoop community manager Andy K. and I wrote an article for Smart Enterprise Exchange (an online community with more than 2,000 global IT executive members- prodcued by TechWeb and CA Technologies ) entitled Creative IT Hiring Strategies: Recruiting and retaining Net Gen workers in the public sector The full article is here (need toRead… Read more »
Paper by Chris Rasmussen recently released via FOIA Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants in the U.S. Intelligence Community View more documents from GovLoop. Favorite
Congratulations! You landed a job with the Federal government. You are a GS-14, or a GS-12, or whatever. You may even supervise some people. You worked hard to get where you are and you are not going to let the stigma that Federal employees are the enemy get you down. But remember this- you areRead… Read more »
Top 5 – Ways to Look Important at the Office I’m writing a little series on Top 5s. I’ll write my top 5s on various topics and I encourage you to write yours. Appearance can be everything. People don’t know what you are really doing so it is important to “look important”. Here’s my 5Read… Read more »
Public Sector is Multi-Sector. Do you believe it? As I wrote previously, I believe that public sector is multi-sector. I continuously see my friends and colleagues who are passionate about public service do it from a number of angles. Some are government employees. Some are contractors. Some are authors. Some run non-profits. But all trulyRead… Read more »
Who Are Your Peers? GovLoop is all about connecting the government community. Federal, state, local Govies. Public policy students/profs. Good contractors and good government non-profits. So I think of those in government as my peers. But I wonder what others do. Who do you think our your peers? Government folks in your agency? Gov’t typesRead… Read more »