Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: BEST BUSINESS TO BE IN RESUME WRITING Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 14:37:03 EST Message-ID: \SE D;LIFE;GOP JITTERS \HD BEST BUSINESS TO BE IN NOW? RESUME WRITING \BY Elisabeth Hickey \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES Like picking at a scab, some Republicans can't resist obsessing on their possible future agony. They paint a picture of a fundamental imbalance between supply and demand kicking in Nov. 4: Huge numbers of Republicans will hit the streets in a town where nobody wants them anymore. With the high turnover expected in Congress, there could be 500 congressional staffers looking for work, 150 former members of Congress and some 3,000 political appointees. All of whom think they should be able "to stay in Washington and earn $100,000," laughs one GOP appointee. Very few ex-members of Congress will want to go back to Peoria. Some have been here 20, 30 years now, and they expect to cash in and be vice president for governmental relations for a Fortune 500 firm and make half a million a year. But that was realistic back when ex-congressmen had cachet and lobbying firms liked to have a few "rainmakers" to trot out. Now they're a dime a dozen. Republican appointees are flooding think tanks and headhunting firms with resumes. "People are doing their resumes fast and furiously," says one, who estimates the actual amount of government work going on in the past month has dropped to "50 to 60 percent of what it was." "Oh my God, I've gotten a ton [of resumes]," says Ron Walker, president of the Kron Ferry International headhunting company. "You run into them on the street and they're carrying a box of Xerox paper, and you know where they're going," says Georgetown antiques dealer Deborah Gore Dean, a rather famous former political appointee in her own right. Mr. Walker has two words for Republicans should their worst fear come to pass: GO HOME. "My advice is go back to where you came from," Mr. Walker says. "If you stay here, you'll just be one of a number. The opportunities in the hinterlands will be better. Go be a big fish in a little pond." Bureaucrats shouldn't expect to sail into private business, he says. "Government experience does not translate to the private sector. These people say they've run this agency or done this budget, but it's a big difference in private business, when you have a bottom line and shareholders. There's no accountability in government." This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM