The recent report to Congress by Office of Personnel Management included the notation that close to 50 federal agencies ponied up $140 million in bonuses to attract, keep and move employees.
Among the bonuses was the DoD bonus to new college grads for accepting science and engineering positions. The average recruitment ... Read More »

The U.S. Aerospace Industries Association has launched a workforce study and initiative that complements AVIATION WEEK'S annual workforce study.
In fact, the renewed effort by AIA includes some of the stronger elements of the AVIATION WEEK study -- identifying skill gaps, best practices in attracting and keeping ... Read More »

In this week's Aviation Week & Space Technology an editorial appeared written by an old friend, Robert Kuntz from California. Anyone who knows Bob knows that he has been passionate with regard to workforce "stuff" for longer than most anyone.
He writes in the Sept. 3 issue: "Therefore, uncorrected or misguided ... Read More »

The Society of British AErospace Companies provided Aviation Week with a broad overview of activity under way to retain aerosopace and defense work.  
SBAC identified skill gaps in the ranks of management, professional, craft and operator/assemblers. As in the U.S., there's a shortage of precision machining ... Read More »

Among the cautions in this year's AVIATION WEEK Workforce Study is that despite all the work and efforts, women and minorities are no more prevalent in the workforce today than a decade ago.
I look around and wonder about that data. There were such gains in the late 1990s in terms of women enrolling in college and in ... Read More »