Understanding Government wasn’t the first, and won’t be the last, to acknowledge the importance of recruiting a more educated and skilled executive branch workforce.

Several earlier postings have discussed these developments.  We’re seeing a need for better educated government workers to deal with increasingly complex issues.  We’re also recognizing the challenge that the government has to recruit such talent, especially with current trends moving away from the single, life-time employer-employee scenario that I and my parents experienced.

A couple fine articles address these key workforce issues in some detail.  First, Stephen Barr’s article in the Washington Post [7/24/06] on IRS’s insistence that Revenue Agents have college degrees and by Karen Rutzick’s piece [7/20/06] from Government Executive on agency recruitment efforts at nearly 600 schools this Fall.  [According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, as of the 2002-2003 school year, there were nearly 4,200 two- and four-year public and private institutions of higher learning in the U.S.]

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