Comments on: Defense Department’s Recruiting Needing an Overhaul

By: The FDA’s Challenges May Sound All Too Familiar - ERE.net

The FDA’s Challenges May Sound All Too Familiar - ERE.net — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:05:18 +0000

[...] (You may remember, by the way, a somewhat similar recent report about the Defense Department in the U.S.) [...]

By: Kes Thygesen

Kes Thygesen — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:27:48 +0000

Though I don’t know much about the Department of Defense, the recommendations that were given to them sound like something many HR departments could take home. The hiring process is too often slow, impersonal, and opaque, not just at the DOD. A lot of this has to do with the candidate experience with the brand from day one. And I wonder what their process is really like… Thanks for sharing.

By: John Del Rico

John Del Rico — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:24:35 +0000

While a security clearance is often necessary due to the nature of a role, the government could benefit from enhancing the process of obtaining a security clearance, for skilled professionals in the private sector looking to secure a position on a government contract.