Speed Dating Sessions For The Feds?

Federal Chief Human Capital Officers will hold speed dating sessions to match experienced HR people with newbies. Kathryn Medina is executive director of the CHCO Council. She says the mentor-protege matching technique has already worked once in a session hosted by Treasury and NASA. Now the council wants to hold four of them next year. In the matchmaking rounds, the mentors meet with potential proteges for a few minutes. Each side gets to meet a dozen people before deciding who to team up with. Medina says it's all aimed at building a better HR workforce through mentoring.