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Roundtable opens Pathways to Public Service

How your agency can turn the interest of millenials into action and encourage them to come aboard was the topic of a recent roundtable. We get details from John...

Federal News Network Staff

January 31, 2011 10:31 am

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The “Pathways to Public Service” roundtable discussion was held in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy Inaugural. The topic: to find ways to inspire and attract a new generation to work in public service. John Della Volpe is the Harvard Institute of Politics polling director. He directs their national polling project on so-called millennials and public service. He says the roundtable brought together more than a dozen government, private sector and academia organizations to discuss how to engage millennials, and how to create opportunities for young people in federal government.