[Roscoe]

Thursday, September 3, 2009, 2:01pm EDT

Report: Government to hire 270,000 by 2012

Charlotte Business Journal - by Tierney Plumb Washington Business Journal

Federal agencies will add more than 270,000 employees during the next three years, according to a report from the Partnership for Public Service.

The total projected hiring for “mission-critical jobs” is expected to jump more than 40 percent during fiscal 2010 to 2012 from the previous three years.

The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit compiled the report after surveying 35 federal agencies about hiring needs.

Federal hiring will be concentrated in five fields: medical and public health, security and protection, compliance and enforcement legal and program management.

The medical and public health arena has 54,114 projected hires, with many new jobs in the departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services. Openings will be in nursing, occupational and rehabilitation therapy and radiology.

In security and protection, there are 52,077 projected hires in intelligence analysis, international relations, foreign affairs and security administration. The most openings are expected in transportation security within the Department of Homeland Security, which has 34,500 projected hires.

Now tell me.....what do these people produce?
Roscoe