Tips for Recruiting Millennials for Local Government Employment - Industry Perspective

Author(s): Jonathan Wiersma

The silver tsunami is coming, and standing in its wake are more than 89,000 local governments across the United States. It's projected that by 2018, 28 percent of public-sector workers will have reached age 61. As these older employees begin to retire, they will need to be replaced. And as local government human resource departments brace for the impact of the silver tsunami, they are wisely beginning to develop strategies focusing on recruiting the next generation of local government employees: millennials. Click here to read more of this article.