Let’s face it: Being designated a non-essential (non-excepted is the officially preferred, if seldom used phrasing) federal employee during a government shutdown can be a bummer, particularly since it means a no-pay furlough. To buck up feds’ spirits, the online networking site GovLoop has started a “You Are Essential” campaign that hands out free stickers and suggests that participants mobilize their Facebook pages in support. As of late Monday, almost 500 people had signed up, GovLoop founder Steve Ressler said in an email. You can find more information on the campaign here.
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Interested in one of those prestigious Presidential Management Fellowships? A newly launched web site hopes to answer all your questions about the selective program, which offers recent graduate students a paid, two-year stint with a federal agency, followed by the chance for a permanent career. The interactive site is backed by the Robertson Foundation for Government, a nonprofit group that seeks to attract top grad students to federal careers in the foreign policy and national security arenas, and the online social network, GovLoop. The new site offers considerably more material than is available from the official site, including tips and…
Are you a fed tired of the knee-jerk government bashing that’s so in vogue these days? The social networking site GovLoop thinks its time for all of you to stand up and yell at the top of your lungs, “I don’t suck!” Yes, GovLoop is holding a “Government Doesn’t Suck” rally tomorrow, alongside Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive event. Go to the south end of the Air and Space Museum and look for the people with green shirts with “Chicks Dig Govies” sign. (Apparently that’s an official GovLoop rally slogan. And I…