Federal agencies are trying harder to attract a new generation of employees with more internships, education stipends, and higher salaries
When she entered the University of Michigan to pursue a graduate degree in social work, Sarah Leder thought she wanted to work one-on-one with people. It wasn’t long, however, until Leder realized that hours of interpersonal therapy was not for her. One of her professors suggested she look at another option: politics.
The age divide has been happening for a while. Strategic human capital management, a fancy phrase for managing well, has beenon the High-Risk List, which is compiled by the General Accountability Office every two years to alert federal managers to potential problems worth fixing. In 2010, 60,000 interns, students and recent college graduates alike, worked in paid jobs inside federal agencies. By the first year of the pandemic, that number had dropped to 4,000.
Kick-starting the federal Pathways Program is one of the first steps. The program, established by President Barack Obama through a 2010order, includes the Presidential Management Fellows Program, internships for students in high school and college, and programs for recent college graduates. Job fairs around the country are a new addition. In Waco, Texas, McDonough attended a fair organized by VA that attracted more than 650 peopleVA also offers new financial incentives. New hires can receive a 10 percent retention bonus at the beginning of the year, instead of at the end. In the area of hospital staffing, which is a large part of the department, VA provides $40,000 in annual education loan repayments for each year a medical student is in residency, up to a maximum of four years.
The incentives are a good start, says Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization interested in building up a new generation of public servants. These sorts of perks tend to attract younger millennials and members of Generation Z, many of whom took their first jobs during the economic head winds of the pandemic years,Even more important, though, is keeping those employees.
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