change.gov and other plum websites
Inspired by this post at Library Juice, I am posting a couple of links relating to the transition to the Obama administration.
Change.gov is the website for the Office of the President-Elect, and the incoming Obama-Biden administration.
Share your ideas: This is a link at the bottom of the Change.gov page. I think maybe it should be higher. Share your story is in the top right corner of the page.
Want to look into applying for a job in the new administration? This is the Presidential Transition Resources page. It refers to the Transition Directory , a GSA publication "developed to introduce Presidential nominees, appointees, and members of the President-elect's Transition Team to the operation of the Federal government and to the resources available to help them begin their service in the new Administration." (also linked to from Change.gov).
It does not seem to refer to the Plum Book. The Plum Book is not called that because it's plum-colored, though it is -- at least now. It didn't used to be. It refers to plum as in "plum jobs" (it always makes me think of Little Jack Horner) -- this is a listing of appointed -- not civil service -- jobs that an incoming President can fill. Thus this book is only published every four years. The new edition is not yet available, according to the GPO, but should be soon. (Meanwhile the ones from the last three election years are online, for comparison or for the impatient.) This is published b the Senata (which must approve many Presidential appointments), but GPO distributes it. (Federal Depository Libraries may also be receiving it although paper copies may be late, or the "reception" may be only of the online version, which is of course available to everyone anyway.)
Among the several sites that the transition page does link to is this list of Government agency abbreviations, six pages long in PDF format. That in itself is worthy of note, as confusing as the Federal "alphabet soup" can be. Many government publications are online in PDF, so keep your Adobe (or other PDF reader) up to date!
But Change.gov DOES have an "apply now" page where you can "express interest" in these appointed jobs (which it calls "non-career jobs"; let's face it, turnover is high in these things), and mentions USAJobs.gov where you can apply for career civil service jobs. (IIRC, having worked as a Depository Librarian for a couple of decades and so being familiar with some of this stuff, USAJobs.gov was founded by Robert Reich when he was Secretary of Labor in Bill Clinton's adminstration.)
Change.gov is the website for the Office of the President-Elect, and the incoming Obama-Biden administration.
Share your ideas: This is a link at the bottom of the Change.gov page. I think maybe it should be higher. Share your story is in the top right corner of the page.
Want to look into applying for a job in the new administration? This is the Presidential Transition Resources page. It refers to the Transition Directory , a GSA publication "developed to introduce Presidential nominees, appointees, and members of the President-elect's Transition Team to the operation of the Federal government and to the resources available to help them begin their service in the new Administration." (also linked to from Change.gov).
It does not seem to refer to the Plum Book. The Plum Book is not called that because it's plum-colored, though it is -- at least now. It didn't used to be. It refers to plum as in "plum jobs" (it always makes me think of Little Jack Horner) -- this is a listing of appointed -- not civil service -- jobs that an incoming President can fill. Thus this book is only published every four years. The new edition is not yet available, according to the GPO, but should be soon. (Meanwhile the ones from the last three election years are online, for comparison or for the impatient.) This is published b the Senata (which must approve many Presidential appointments), but GPO distributes it. (Federal Depository Libraries may also be receiving it although paper copies may be late, or the "reception" may be only of the online version, which is of course available to everyone anyway.)
Among the several sites that the transition page does link to is this list of Government agency abbreviations, six pages long in PDF format. That in itself is worthy of note, as confusing as the Federal "alphabet soup" can be. Many government publications are online in PDF, so keep your Adobe (or other PDF reader) up to date!
But Change.gov DOES have an "apply now" page where you can "express interest" in these appointed jobs (which it calls "non-career jobs"; let's face it, turnover is high in these things), and mentions USAJobs.gov where you can apply for career civil service jobs. (IIRC, having worked as a Depository Librarian for a couple of decades and so being familiar with some of this stuff, USAJobs.gov was founded by Robert Reich when he was Secretary of Labor in Bill Clinton's adminstration.)