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Panel: Former federal HHS workers urged to show specific, local-facing skills to land county jobs
Summary
Northern Virginia local officials told federally experienced jobseekers to translate large-scale federal work into concrete, local outcomes, use behavioral interview techniques, and highlight relationship and communications skills to improve hiring chances in public health, human services and behavioral-health roles.
A panel hosted by the Virginia Local Government Management Association advised federal employees seeking local health and human services jobs to make their experience concrete and locally relevant, emphasizing specific stakeholders, measurable outcomes and relationship-building.
"Be specific about who your stakeholders were and what you did with the data," Natalie Tallis, population health manager at the Alexandria Health Department, said. "A little bit more detail really helps go a long way in helping me to imagine you joining our team." Tallis recommended naming software tools, data sources and the downstream results of analyses rather than speaking only in broad terms.
Fairfax County Department of Family Services Division Director Lisa Tatum said hiring panels want candidates who can translate large-scale…
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