Nailing the Crucial Interview With Your Federal CIO Candidates

Abstract

On average, a federal CIO remains in office for just twenty-three months, compared to nearly five years in the private sector. Even more noteworthy is that it takes about a year to "permanently" replace an agency's CIO. This means that a third or more of those legislatively mandated roles are performed at any point in time by people temporarily acting in the job. Recruitment of the federal CIO continually remains a difficult issue across government, with no quick fix solution in sight. Many factors contribute to these recruitment and retention challenges. They range from basic perception issues - the CIO is too often viewed not as strategic business partner but as a technologist - to inadequate authority given to the CIO to enforce policies or standards. Still, a replacement must be recruited by federal agencies each time a CIO post is vacated, if only to comply with the law.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2006
Accession Number
AD1107438

Entities

People

  • Kenneth L. Mullins

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Contractors
  • Corporations
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Lessons Learned
  • Motivation
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Perception
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Resistance
  • Security
  • Sensitivity
  • Standards
  • Teamwork

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  • Government and Public Administration Law.