We’ve had a couple good posts to the question of the status of contractors in federal offices touching on the issue of job security. When jobs currently held by federal employees are contracted out, those federal employees have several options including transferring to new positions, continuing as contractors or retiring. Contractors, on the other hand, are on their own, as one comment points out. Federal employees have more training options, more potential for career advancement. And contractors might not be earning that much more money than their fed counterparts. After all, the contractor needs to keep his costs down too.
So as more IT jobs get outsourced to contractors, what’s the best course? Stick with government until retirement (if it’s not too much longer), or jump now, while the job market is looking up? In case you’re on the fence, the Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its Occupational Employment Projections to 2014. According to the report, 75% of the new professional jobs are expected to be in health care practitioner and technical occupations; education, training, and library occupations; and computer and mathematical science occupations.
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