Demand surges for critical skills

Demand surges for critical skills
By STEPHEN LOSEY
September 07, 2009
Over the next three years, the Veterans Affairs Department will need to hire tens of thousands of additional doctors, nurses and other medical specialists to help soldiers wounded and traumatized in war.
At the Homeland Security Department, stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws will require hundreds of new attorneys to help prosecute cases.
And at the State Department, a growing presence overseas will require thousands of new Foreign Service officers, many of whom will have to speak Arabic, Chinese and Farsi.
Those and other expanding missions across the government — combined with the loss of large numbers of employees expected to retire in coming years — mean agencies will have to hire 273,000 employees to fill critical jobs over the next three years, according to a study released last week by the Partnership for Public Service. Medical, security, law enforcement, legal and administrative jobs will be some of the most in-demand positions, the study said.
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