Treasury & Fiscal Service's & FRB's computer systems in the news
And the political scientists weigh in
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#Usgovtech
I'm evaluating job offers and things that could be offers soon. Only thing worse than being unemployed is having to decide which job to take. Why? At least in #usgovtech
- typical don't meet your team or supervisor until after hire
- like parachuting into unknown enemy territory
- you remember every time you were burned by a bad career choice
- other leads that sound good may or may not be in the pipeline
- you have to be mean and say no to whoever made the first offer
So if a company can't find a cleared techie, they take a non-technical person and hope for the best.
Federal ...hiring freeze...-
"Contracting outside the Federal Government to circumvent the intent of this memorandum is prohibited."
Contracting companies aren't purely staffing companies, they do solution delivery & contracts are often in place long before things like this come up. Not sure what this means for contractors.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/hiring-freeze/
There was similar language in the 2017 Executive Order - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States_federal_hiring_freeze
♡ 0 ↻ 0Fed gov't hiring levels have been at ~2 million for 50 years. Contracting head count exploded since then to fill the gap.
https://www.iatse728.org/about/news/6-facts-you-need-to-know-about-a-federal-hiring-freeze
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