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The future of the federal workforce is on display on social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and the picture is mixed. Young employees are baring their personal predilections and their agencies' peccadilloes on the sites at the same time government recruiters and boosters are using them to troll for talent. In the dissonant mix, opposing messages can cancel each other out. Federal employees are not writing only about manicures and music on social networking sites. They write about their jobs, too. There are no governmentwide guidelines for the use of social networking sites, and no agencies have asked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for such guidance, says Kevin Mahoney, OPM's associate director for human capital leadership. All of OPM's online energy has gone into the USAJOBS.gov Web site, which was dramatically overhauled for the better in the fall of 2003.
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THE FUTURE OF THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE is on display on social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and the picture is mixed. Young employees are baring their personal predilections and their agencies' peccadilloes on the sites at the same time government recruiters and boosters are using them to troll for talent. In the dissonant mix, opposing messages can cancel each other out.
On MySpace, Brennan, a 30-year-old federal employee in Washington, writes that he's a "nice guy" who "ideally would like to have more free time to sit back and relax." He doesn't want to stay in government forever. He's a weekend D.J. who'd like eventually to devote all...See the full content of this document
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