by WorkScoop Staff
Federal agencies face more than a wage-scale disadvantage when competing with commercial firms for technology talent. They also have to overcome rigid hiring rules which tend to disqualify promising candidates and discourage others from seeing a path for growth, say private sector workforce experts.
Those hurdles are hardly new to government. However, they’re becoming more formidable as a broader U.S. shortage of technology and cybersecurity workers continues to hobble federal agency efforts to modernize their aging IT systems.
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Read more from WorkScoop, including comments from Bryan Thomas, senior vice president of public sector for World Wide Technology.