By Brittany R. Ballenstedt
Rigid pay systems and leadership skills gaps are among the challenges agencies will face as they seek to offset a talent shortage expected over the next decade, top government officials and an outside observer said Tuesday.
At a breakfast sponsored by the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute and the management and consulting firm Accenture, representatives from three agencies and a nonprofit group agreed that federal officials should immediately begin planning for how they will address such challenges.
If that doesn't happen, "rather than getting the best of the brightest, we're going to end up with the best of the desperate," said John Palguta, vice president for policy and research at the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
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