There is one — and only one — nationwide employer that will continue to annually fill hundreds of thousands of high-paying, secure, dynamic jobs no matter how bad the economy may get.  Who is this employer? The federal government, which will annually hire more than 200,000 new employees throughout the U.S. — including tens of [...]

We spoke to our contacts at the Treasury Department regarding positions related to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to implement the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). A number of contract attorneys have applied and been accepted. If you sent resumes based on our first posting a few months ago, they have been “rolled over” but [...]

See:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138583 In answer to your flood of mails, we assume the FBI will hire contract attorneys for this work which they have done in the past. However, the FBI has changed it staffing procedures and now goes via the FBO route for contracting (for reference see here http://tinyurl.com/d86l4w and here http://tinyurl.com/ae3nw2) and not directly [...]

As reported by the Bloomberg and the HuffingtonPost websites last night, the FDIC may manage the so-called “bad bank” that the Obama administration is likely to set up as it tries to break the back of the credit crisis.   The FDIC has been beefing up staff (see our earlier post here).  FDIC Chairman Sheila Blair is pushing to run the [...]

FDIC is going to hire 500 new staff. Most slots will be bank examiner jobs. But those jobs pay quite well if you have a few years of experience.  For details click here. Information on the job postings will appear on the FDIC website here.

Through the efforts of several Posse members, supplemented by the work of the staff at the Posse List, we have compiled sources and links to finding government jobs.  The favorite method appears to be searching http://www.usajobs.opm.gov but our friends at various government agencies and bodies told us not all jobs are listed on that site. [...]