VA’s Office of Information Technology is actively recruiting laid-off tech workers to fill about 1,000 agency vacancies. The agency is specifically looking to fill positions in software development, product management and cybersecurity.
VA Chief Information Officer Kurt DelBene said the agency is reaching out to IT workers with in-demand skills at top tech companies — including Twitter, Meta, Amazon, Stripe and Microsoft — that have been part of “across the board” layoffs…
About 50,000 private-sector tech employees received layoff notices in November, and about 100,000 total tech workers were laid off this year.
The VA expects it will soon be able to offer these new IT hires a higher maximum salary than what they could previously earn under the General Schedule pay scale… Read the full article here.
