US Govt to Hire Nearly 150,000 in 2 Years -- Study
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The U.S. government plans to hire  nearly 150,000 people in the next two years, but most will  replace existing workers while an aging workforce will  intensify competition from the private sector, a study released  on Wednesday showed.
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The British government spent 1.75 billion pounds (3.20 billion dollars, 2.52 billion euros) last year to hire outside consultants, some of who were paid roughly 10 times that of a civil servant doing same job, a report said.
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The Bush administration expects  revised data due on Friday to show the pace of job creation in  the year leading up to March was much swifter than had been  believed, economists who received a White House memo on the  subject said on Tuesday.
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As the USA plans for the population growth from 2000 to 2030, the number of additional people it will have to accommodate looms large: 94 million.
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Most senior executives at large U.S.  companies plan to increase hiring and investments over the next  12 months amid growing optimism about the economy, according to  a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers released on Thursday.
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It's the cost of competition. Large federal agencies are increasingly offering bonuses to recruit employees for hard-to-fill jobs and to keep them from leaving the government.
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Uncle Sam, the nation's largest employer, is gearing up for a hiring binge.
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In its announced clampdown on companies that hire illegal workers, the federal government has arrested nearly four times as many people in the past year as it did two years ago, but only a tiny fraction of those arrests involved criminal charges against those who hired the workers, according to a...
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The center will have 1,000 employees over the next two years, and the focus will be on local software development and services resources.
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.
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The United States will boost its forces in Iraq to a record number of 150,000 in coming weeks because inexperienced Iraqi troops cannot ensure security for next month's national elections, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Saturday.
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Bush's $2.5 trillion plan would cut 150 programs. Other costs grow.
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A new wave of immigration is driving the US population's march to 300 million.
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The cap on H-1B visas granted to foreign workers, set at 65,000 for the fiscal year that began Friday, has already been reached, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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The U.S. high-tech work force grew  by 2 percent last year but demand for computer programmers,  tech-support specialists and other high-tech workers continues  to erode, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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Last year, an estimated 150,000 foreigners visited India for medical procedures, and the number is increasing at the rate of about 15 percent a year, according to a health care specialist at the Confederation of Indian Industries.
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Vacancies with big employers of graduates are expected to be 16% higher than last year, a poll suggests.