Tomorrow evening the Glenn Fellows will be meeting with three OSU alumni who have a great deal of wisdom to share about job-hunting strategies and the D.C. job market. Julie Saad works for the Office of Personnel Management, which is in effect the federal government's human resources office; Angela Mikolajewski is a staffer in the Office of Senator George Voinovich; and David Warner is an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. Each has a unique perspective based on an old adage that Washingtonians call "Miles's Law": "Where you stand depends upon where you sit."
Coincidentally, Steve Vogel of the Post had a column in the "Federal Diary" last Friday that illustrates just how perverse the rules governing the federal service can be. It also demonstrates the unique status of Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) within the U.S. Department of State. Click here for a link to Vogel's piece, which is about the Federal Service Act of 1980, which mandates that FSOs retire at age 65. As Vogel explains, this policy is supposed to reflect "the rigors of overseas service," but "it does not apply to political appointees--among them, high-profile diplomatic envoys such as Richard C. Holbrooke, 68, or George Mitchell, 76, or, for that matter, [Hillary Rodham] Clinton, who will be 65 in October 2012."
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