Mrs. Angelica E. Ibarguen

Training and information technology are areas repeatedly left underfunded at the EEOC, according to Angelica Ibarguen, the EEOC's chief human capital officer and Sallie Hsieh, the agency's chief information officer.
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Nearly 400 employees have left the EEOC in the past two years, 148 employees, or 37 percent, because of retirement, Ibarguen said.Roughly 95 percent of agency managers will be eligible to retire within 10 years."We are hemorrhaging people with talent and experience and will continue to do so as our people choose to retire or leave the agency," Ibarguen warned commissioners.

When employees leave the EEOC, gaps in job skills emerge, Ibarguen explained.These gaps have been especially hard to fill because of a hiring freeze and a lack of funds to train current workers.In 2003, the EEOC allotted about $400,000 for training, significantly less than the 2 percent to 3 percent of its budget suggested by management experts, she said.

Agency managers also tend to set aside training money at the back end of the budget process, Ibarguen added.

"While we have talented people in the EEOC who are committed to and passionate about the mission, we are not developing them or creating the kind of environment that will make them do what they do best," she cautioned.

Mrs. Angelica Ibarguen, Chief, Human Capital Officer, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Sister)

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Angelica Ibarguen of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission talked about her previous private sector experience in developing executive compensation packages.