Governments need to be able to successfully recruit talent, but some have a reputation for making it harder than it has to be. The following not Top 10 list includes common mistakes governments have made, based on the reported experiences of a few recent job applicants in a survey by GFOA.

Read all our findings in GFOA’s recent research report, “Meeting Demand for State and Local Public Finance Jobs,” which provides more information about the scale of the challenge and some specific challenges facing the public finance industry.

• Publication date: February 2023