A Thought on Hiring

Brittany Ballenstedt has a post up at Wired Workplace about some private-sector groups that are urging the federal government to hire veterans for information technology jobs, arguing that there's a match between skill sets. All of which got me thinking. In USAJobs listings, there's usually a text paragraph listing specific skill sets either required or desired for the position. I think it would be an enormous enhancement to create tags for all of those skills, and instead of having a plain-text listing, have a list of hyperlinks instead. Clicking on those links would bring up all the jobs that require the same skills, and the site could have pull-down menus that would let applicants filter the jobs by agency, location, etc. It's simple, but it's the kind of thing that would make navigating USAJobs intelligently a lot easier.