Healthcare Technology and News: More Government Jobs Coming Up: Study

Good news or bad news, depending on your point of view: A study recently released by the Partnership for Public Service found that there will soon be "a considerable increase" in new government jobs. 

The study attributes the coming increase to a variety of factors including stimulus spending, turnover and "increased demand in expanding areas such as homeland security." The study said they there will be 273,000 new hires in positions deemed "mission critical" by the fall of 2012.

Evidently government "medical jobs" are going to lead the way, as the study's calling for 54,000 over the next three years. Overall, however, there will be taxpayer-funded sinecures for paralegals and biological science experts, border patrol agents and engineers, IT experts and accountants. 

Taxpayers are also going to be on the hook for loan repayment of up to $10,000 per year totaling $60,000 in exchange for a minimum of three years of service for the expansion of the government payroll, recruitment bonuses, and relocation incentives. 

The Partnership for Public Service is a Washington, D.C.- based group founded in 2001 by Samuel J. Heyman "in an effort to restore prestige to government service."

This February HealthTechZone had the news that Telework Exchange, a public-private partnership focused on telework in government, announced that Vice Admiral Mark Ferguson III, Chief of Naval Personnel for U.S. Navy and Max Stier, president and CEO for Partnership for Public Service, delivered the keynote addresses at the Spring Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting. 

 

Taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. in April, the conference looked at ways federal agencies could use existing resources to build telework programs and will showcase examples of federal agencies establishing and expanding successful telework programs.