USPTO Launches New Jobs Pages and Outreach to Hispanic Millennials
Guest Blog by Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Bismarck Myrick
USPTO’s mission, providing timely and high quality examination of patent and trademark applications, could be compromised with 18% of our workforce eligible to retire in the next 3-5 years. Therefore, it is crucial that we actively recruit new talent from across the country and from all backgrounds.
As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize that Hispanic employees at the USPTO provide a richness in skill, creativity, thought leadership and determination.
Through our newly redesigned careers pages, “USPTO Jobs,” social media, and other digital means, the USPTO is modernizing the way we recruit prospective employees, with special attention paid to reaching highly-qualified jobseekers from underrepresented groups. In particular, I am delighted to announce a new digital outreach strategy designed to reach Hispanic Millennials, making sure they know about job opportunities at the USPTO.
In June 2009, engineers at the USPTO formed the first U.S. government professional chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, SHPE-USPTO. SHPE-USPTO programs foster the professional, educational and cultural support that members rely on for career advancement and success at USPTO.
SHPE-USPTO also played an instrumental role in supporting the expansion of the agency’s telework program to Puerto Rico. As of April 2016, interested and eligible employees now have another telework option outside of the USPTO’s 50-mile commuting radius. We expect that this step will not only help the USPTO’s efforts to spur innovation in more regions, but that enhance the Puerto Rican economy by bringing federal employee positions to the island.
Watch our video to learn more about the impact that Hispanic employees are having at the USPTO.
Positions at the USPTO are available not only in our headquarters in the Washington DC area, but also in our regional offices in Detroit, Denver, Dallas, and Silicon Valley, as well as remotely through our telework program. Speak to us this fall as we visit over 24 universities, and hold events from info sessions to Twitter chats. Follow us on Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook for the latest details. And be sure to check out USPTO Jobs, which provides prospective employees with improved navigation, accessibility of agency news and information, and a live feed of job openings from USAJobs.gov.
We are a workforce of nearly 13,000 highly-skilled and motivated professionals including engineers, scientists, attorneys, strategists, and computer specialists – all dedicated to protecting U.S. intellectual property rights. The USPTO is one of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government,® rankings produced by the Partnership for Public Service. Read about some of our talented professionals, and learn more about our benefits, student programs, veteran employment and disability hiring programs.
Posted at 11:30AM Oct 04, 2016 in USPTO |