re: Laid off federal workers continue to struggle getting new job, jobless claim data shows

What skillset do they bring to the table?

Have you dealt with low level fed employees?

DEI is real.

Affirmative (re) action!

Private employers probably aren’t chomping at the bit to hire the average useless 9-4 federal employee with one hour lunch break government mentality.

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Uhhhh….you may want to research the 1990s

Something like 500,000 defense dept workers were laid off as Cold War ended. They were absorbed with ease by tech sector.

Steve Jobs once said that defense dept layoffs were one of the main reason Silicon Valley boomed

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Automotive, which was DEI before DEI was cool, made a conscious decision to pass on those laid off defense engineers and techs that built the tech industry. I was there personally at one of the former Big Three in an executive level company-wide hiring strategy offsite meeting.

The discussion centered around putting together a list of premiums over baseline to pay for, say, a female Hispanic engineer or a female black engineer, by degree type and level. You can guess who the baseline rate was applied to. HBCU engineers also brought a premium. The US Big Two + halfbreed Stellantis are still paying the price for the brain drain they induced in the 1990's through the early aughts.

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Why would anyone want to hire your run of the mill government worker?

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Uhhhh….you may want to research the 1990s Something like 500,000 defense dept workers were laid off as Cold War ended. They were absorbed with ease by tech sector. Steve Jobs once said that defense dept layoffs were one of the main reason Silicon Valley boomed

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So people employed in the one sector that is always on the cutting edge of technology for as long as humans have lived, warfare, were able to find jobs more easily than non-technology focused civil bureaucrats who have done virtually nothing but sort paperwork their entire careers? I’m shocked.

I would imagine the vast majority of government workers are legitimately unemployable in the private sector.

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I was hopeful we’d see the private sector be able to absorb all this freed up labor.

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They don't have marketable skills.

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There are plenty of jobs paying 6 figures Just not the jobs you want

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This!

I do heavy construction project management. I just finished up at the large PLNG project in Plaquemines Parish.

I got my young nephew on as a low level fiber optic helper.

He made 126k last year as the lowest level helper out there. Did he work a shite of ton hours? Yep. But, there is money to be made if you’re willing.

Now, after he acquired this experience, he just accepted a position with The Boring Company and is moving to Nashville for 3-4 years while they build the Nashville Loop.

This kid barely graduated high school and had probably never heard of fiber optics 3 years ago.

Yep . Then if they are hiring, the conditions are prohibitive. Jobs for people with Secret Clearances are tough to come by unless you have Level III certifications like a CASP or CISSP. TS/SCI jobs are still out there but not anywhere close to levels of 3 years ago, but they are mostly in the DC / Maryland area and in Colorado and CA