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Recruiting Challenges In The Public Sector

Jennifer Gabbard
Management Communications with Technology Tools
Recruiting Challenges in the Public Sector
December 22, 2008

Final Project: Recruiting Challenges in the Public Sector
There are rules, regulations and ordinances that all guide the recruiting process in the public sector; however, in my opinion these challenges just interfere with a governmental agencies ability to hire the best and most qualified new employees. As an example, a couple of the solutions that I think will help the public sector’s recruiting process are 1) making the application process more simplistic, 2) targeting younger workers by working with universities and colleges and 3) developing a workforce strategy.
The public sector has a lot of challenges that lie ahead of it, when it comes to recruiting and hiring new employees. Not only are the recruiting processes in the public sector outdated, too restrictive and too complex to hire a candidate efficiently. However, the applicant pool from which organizations, both public and private, can choose from is growing smaller and smaller every day. This is a problem because more and more employees within the public sector are retiring every year.
Recruiting in the public sector is neither the easiest, nor the most time efficient process in the public sector. The restrictions placed on governmental agencies make recruiting and hiring new employees a very difficult process. There are rules, such as Affirmative Action, as well as regulations and ordinances that all guide the recruiting process; however, in my opinion, these challenges really just make a governmental agencies ability to hire the best and most qualified new employees more convoluted. For instance, within the City of Minneapolis, where I work, there is a State of Minnesota law that says that the City of Minneapolis must interview the top three candidates for every open position. It does not state that the top three candidates must be the best fit for...