The Office of Personnel Management is looking for cybersecurity workers and hiring managers to participate in focus groups to discuss challenges in hiring federal cyber workers. In a memo sent last week to agency chief human capital officers, OPM Director John Berry said the focus groups will support the government's workforce structure efforts under the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
Participants in the focus groups will discuss recruitment and other HR strategies, challenges, best practices and brainstorm ideas to help hire and retain cyber experts to meet existing and future federal workforce needs, Berry said. "The focus groups will further our objective to recruit and retain a highly skilled federal cybersecurity workforce," he wrote.
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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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