Government IT Still Ok Despite Trump Freeze?

With President Trump making news with his latest signing, freezing government jobs. It looks like it's not ALL jobs are affected. The Government IT jobs will be a bit tougher to get because of the signing, but it's still very possible for those in the Defense and Cybersecurity positions.

Defense agencies are big users of IT and appear to be unaffected by the freeze. Cybersecurity hiring is a major impetus at civilian agencies and, depending on how broadly the government defines IT jobs related to "public security," there could still be quite a bit of hiring.

Cybersecurity-related hiring was a top IT priority in the last year of President Barack Obama's administration. It follows high-profile government breaches, including some 20 million records from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Source: Trump's federal hiring freeze won't kill government IT hiring

As to be expected, not everyone is on board with a government hiring freeze. In fact an independent watchdog, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GOA), issued a report stating that a hiring freezes had very little effect on actual federal employment levels and it was unknown whether they even saved the government money.

The last time there was a federal hiring freeze was in 1982.

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