The public sector continues to face an unprecedented hiring crisis. Since last year alone, the number of applications per job has decreased by 17%. How can agencies recover and start filling critical roles?

We’ll address this question and more in the Quiet Crisis Webinar, using data from 45M+ government applications, 850+ job seekers, and 130 HR professionals.

In this webinar, Kelley Steven-Waiss, Chief Transformation Officer at ServiceNow, will share insights into employee growth and development strategies that can evolve skills development capacity in ways that are transformative for both public sector workers and the agencies they serve.

State and local governments continue to face severe labor shortages and are deploying new strategies to attract and retain public service workers. State and local governments hired more full-time or part-time staff in 2022 than in 2021, but it was more common for agencies to report that quits and retirements increased rather than decreased. Jurisdictions also reported deploying new strategies to widen the pool of job candidates, such as dropping degree requirements for some positions.

This survey of public sector human resources professionals has been conducted annually since 2009 by MissionSquare Research Institute in collaboration with the Public Sector HR Association (PSHRA) and the National Association of State Personnel Executives (NASPE).