Who does the hiring at the USDA?

When USDA was established in 1862 by President Lincoln, he called it the “Peoples Department”, because it served most Americans. As the People’s Department, our success will be determined by how well we go about addressing our human capital (people) needs. The role of the Office of Human Capital Management is to facilitate the attainment of USDA’s strategic goals and program objectives by ensuring we recruit and retain a diverse highly-skilled workforce aligned with our program needs as well as to promote a competency-based and results-oriented performance culture.
Welcome to the USDA Office of Human Capital Management. USDA is made up of a diverse, knowledgeable workforce of people with a broad range of technical and program skills engaged in important activities such as protecting public health and our food, ensuring a plentiful and nutritious food supply,encouraging science-based stewardship of our natural resources, and administering programs that promote both agriculture and the quality of life in rural America.The employees at USDA bring unique talents, dedication, and a level of professionalism that allows us to meet these strategic objectives now and into the future.
Check it out at: http://www.usda.gov/da/employ/employ.html

Mission Statement of the USDA and Career Choices

The United States Department of Agriculture

The mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is to enhance the quality of life for the American people by supporting production agriculture; ensuring safe, affordable, nutritious, and accessible food supply; caring for agricultural, forest, and range lands; supporting rural communities' sound development; providing economic opportunities for farm and rural residents; expanding global markets for agricultural and forest products and services; and working to reduce hunger in America and throughout the world.

Because it is one of the Government's largest civilian employers, USDA offers unparalleled career choices in fields such as:

• Agribusiness and Industry


• Management


• Natural Resources and Environment


• Science and Technology

U.S. Department of Agriculture :

• Career Intern Program
  
  

Getting Started

Greetings and welcome to my first blog posting. I intend my blog to be a research blog to investigate the topic of careers in the agricultural business. More specifically, I am interested in pursuing a career in accounting with the United States Department of Agriculture. I plan to research the this field of employment to benefit me in my pursuit of an accounting career. I will be looking at career and internship positions, their training and development, their salary and benifits package, and their safety and worklife programs, along with many other aspects of a government job. I welcome any comments and insights to this topic as I begin this project.
David