A recent article by the Washington Post interested me and it
explains how millennials are being scared away from federal jobs. Millennials
are generally considered people who are born between the early 1980s and the
late 1990s. As the baby-boomer generation retires millennials are expected to
take their place, but figures show that the percent of federal workers under
the age of 30 has been slowly declining since 2011. In 2013, employees under 30
accounted for 9% of those who left the government. Why is this happening? Why
isn’t the government trying harder to train fresh young talent to federal
positions?
One noticeable problem is the hiring process and the
government’s Pathways internship program. The Pathways program was designed to
attract young people onto a federal career path, but it has been filled with
problems that very few have actually been hired. In a review by the Partnership
for Public Service, poor hiring staff, widespread communication problems, and a
weak system to review applications all have been noted as problems. Millennials
have also been turning to the private sector for jobs. Why invest in a federal
career when you could be hired during your last year of grad school?
I’ve always wanted to work for the government and at this
rate I’m not sure if that route will be viable in a few years. Why network and
work my way up the bureaucracy when I can just get hired by a private company
and have a solid stable job? I truly believe that our government should be
reaching out to the younger generation and encouraging them to take a federal
job so that our country doesn’t fall apart because there’s nobody to run it.
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