Obama's administration preparing to use headhunters to fill key positions

The Examiner.com ^ | April 27, 2009 | Tara Gowland

[keepitreal]

Barack Obama has been notoriously tough in hiring lobbyists in Washington and therefore, headhunters have been retained to search for hard to fill positions.

Obama's administrators have reportedly interviewed large search firms Korn/Ferry International, Russell Reynolds Associates and Heidrick & Struggles.

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Obama said, “A lot of people who we think are about to serve in the administration and Treasury suddenly say, ‘Well, you know what? I don’t want to go through some of the scrutiny, embarrassment, in addition to taking huge cuts in pay.’ ”

[keepitreal]

Well if you can't get smart business types to join the government, just conscript them. You've already taken it upon yourself to fire executives. Just force executives out of the private sector and make them work for the government. Yes we can!

[Nachum]

The List, ping

[Oztrich Boy]

So Soetoro's going to bring in people from Indonesia

Probably do a better job than the clowns he's got now.

[Prokopton]

Well if you can't get smart business types to join the government, just conscript them.

Smart business types is the last thing Obama wants anywhere near him. In fact, smart people of any kind seem anethema to his administration.

[razorback-bert]

Who is going to pay the headhunter, oh silly me, us of course.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

bozo wouldn’t pass the test if he were applying for POTUS
what a total joke, he ran outta’ people he knew

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

bozo wouldn’t pass the test if he were applying for POTUS if he were hired thru this agency
what a total joke, he ran outta’ people he knew or at least people who would WANT to work - e.g., dear old Sanjay Gupta- “family obligations” -well- Gupta got one thing in his life right- don’t work for this clown

[D-fendr]

You’d think after all the power and money and offices and time they had to plan the transition, they’d at least have the tops admins of all the departments ready.

[KLT]

HOPE THEY GOT MY APPLICATION!!!!!!

[D-fendr]

“A lot of people who we think are about to serve in the administration and Treasury suddenly say, ‘Well, you know what? I don’t want to go through some of the scrutiny, embarrassment, in addition to taking huge cuts in pay.’ ”

Yeah, we know, you inherited the problem, no one's ever had to do this before, it's not your fault, we can't prove a thing.

[pankot]

Perhaps they should recruit in Kenya?

[freekitty]

LOL The only requirement is you have to be a communist.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Would this be Cannibal and the Headhunters, by chance ?

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

back in the day it was “KELLYGIRL”

roflmao

[freekitty]

LOL

[bethtopaz]

Now THAT made me laugh! Thanks, I needed that!

[bethtopaz]

What did one cannibal say to another cannibal as they were eating a clown?

Answer: Does this taste funny to you?

[bruinbirdman]

"Smart business types is the last thing Obama wants anywhere near him."

Haven't seen one person promoted from within. Like, "Our new Secretary of Health, Joe Sixpack who has been with the department for 34 years. Joe has worked himself up from a GS-6."

yitbos