Attract New Entrants To the Federal Workforce.
The Balancing Act: Adoption & Diffusion of New Technology To Attract New Entrants To the Federal Workforce.
In order to recruit and develop cyber talent we have to ask is the Federal HR Workforce ready? NASA recently awarded the SEWP V contracts to streamline the process of providing federal agencies with state-of-the-art tablets, desktops and servers; IT peripherals; network equipment; storage systems; security tools; software products; cloud-based services; video conferencing systems, and other IT and audio-visual products; as well as related services such as installation, training and maintenance. All federal agencies and their contractors can place orders through this GWAC. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, procures and manages the SEWP V effort. Meanwhile, the Office of Personnel Management working now with GSA to revamp the legacy Talent Management Assistance or TMA contract to what is now to be called the Human Capital and Training Solutions for GSA, General Services Administration. This information has recently been updated, and is now available at HCaTS latest update here: HCaTS Draft RFP Extension OPM advises to both adhere to Federal Standards while moving out with new vehicles for Human capital but where are the inherent risks and potential conflicts posed by digital adoption and its new challenges to how things have always been done. Taking a customer centric approach leads us down the path of seeing the diffusion of innovation in talent management and HR systems that can both aid in ad serving and candidate sourcing as well as outreach campaign tracking techniques but at what cost? Given the adoption of programmatic ad buying platforms or DMP (Database Marketing Platforms) government marketers can secure more highly targeted ways to leverage search engines to attract or get diverse candidates to opt-in to recruitment communications. However in so far that the Paperwork Reduction Act and the Memorandums from the Office of Management & Budget restricts the use of cookies, more DMP’s are looking to provide targeting that does not compromise PII data or aggregates that data across social media, even measuring sentiment across social networks and commercial ecommerce platforms. This may present a problem in that many new contractors and their agency clients may not even be aware that these technologies are in use or being used for reporting results in practice but as the spirit of the rule aligns to the Open Government Directive Memorandum M-10-22 states “The central goal is to respect and safeguard the privacy of the American public while also increasing the Federal Government’s ability to serve the public by