Attracting the Best: How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel : RAND Corporation , 2004
Attracting the Best: How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel : RAND Corporation , 2004
From the preface: "In the final years of the 1990s, the private-sector demand for information technology (IT) workers seemed insatiable. IT unemployment was practically nonexistent, pay was high and rising fast, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics had forecast a far larger growth in IT jobs over the next decade than in any other occupational area. Leaders in the national security community began to doubt that the military, intelligence agencies, and public organizations would be able to compete for IT workers in such an increasingly tight labor market. This concern was intensified by the evolving nature of the military services and intelligence agencies and their increasing dependence on information technology. The scramble for IT workers has ceased, but it lasted long enough to jolt state and federal agencies into modifying their personnel policies to attract and keep IT personnel, e.g., through altered job classification systems, increased pay levels, and enhanced professional development opportunities. The IT boom also caused national security planners to question whether future force structures would be vulnerable to shortages of IT personnel."
Authors - Kavanagh, Jennifer, Mattock, Michael G., Hosek, James, Fair, C. Christine, Sharp, Jennifer, Totten, Mark E.Subjects
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