The Office of Personnel Management announced on Friday that the 2010 job fair for the Presidential Management Fellows Program was a great success, drawing more than 2,000 PMF participants from more than 87 federal agencies. The job fair, held March 30 through April 1 in Washington, D.C., resulted in a number of job offers, OPM said. To date, more than 7,000 PMF participants have joined the federal government.
Some experts have suggested that portions of the PMF program, which targets recent master's graduates and provides two years of rotational experiences at government agencies, need an overhaul. For example, critics have argued that the PMF program has an impersonal application process and does not do enough to retain top talent. Did you participate in the PMF program and join the federal government as a result? What criticisms or praises do you have of the program, particularly when it comes to recruiting and retaining IT expertise?
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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