By Aliya Sternstein, National Journal's Technology Daily
The official job search portal of the U.S. government, a very effective recruiting tool by most accounts, could lose out on young job-seekers soon if it does not start sharing job listings with other Web sites, some management experts say.
USAJobs.gov, the government's centralized job-search Web site, is user friendly and easy to search, but it does not post its employment opportunities on major online job boards like CareerBuilder, Monster and HotJobs. Nor are its job openings typically searchable through popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
The government may need to consider reaching more eyeballs given that over the next two years, agencies project they will need nearly 193,000 new workers for mission-critical jobs. That figure comes from a July 3 report on federal job openings released by the Partnership for Public Service. Nearly a third of the full-time federal workforce is expected to leave in the next five years, as the baby boomer generation retires.
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