CSS Skills Workshop | Staffing Principles: How to Deliver What Senior Leaders Want
Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Georgetown Main Campus (exact location TBA)
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This event is free and open to incoming and continuing SSP students.
Join the Center for Security Studies for a workshop on staffing principles with experienced federal government staffer and SSP graduate Mitchel Hochberg. If you work in government and haven’t won an election, you are a staffer. Improving your staffing skills can help you succeed in executive branch and congressional roles throughout your career. Join experienced federal government staffer and SSP graduate Mitchel Hochberg for a workshop that will teach participants how to prepare for and succeed in staff jobs. Using group conversations, interactive exercises, and relevant scholarship, Mitchel will help you gain skills and tools normally learned on the job.
Whether you’re a prospective staffer who wants to begin understanding the government workplace, in transition and preparing for job interviews, or a seasoned hand looking to reflect on and refine the skills you’re building, Staffing Principles is for you.
Accessibility
For requests for accommodations due to a disability or medical condition, contact securitystudies@georgetown.edu no later than June 22, 2024. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill all accommodation requests.
About the facilitator
Mitchel Hochberg is Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of the Army. He previously worked as a Team Chief covering personnel and readiness issues in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Legislative Affairs office. Before moving to the Department of Defense, Mitchel served on Capitol Hill as National Security Advisor to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor to Rep. Jackie Speier. He also worked as a Research Associate at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Mitchel holds an M.A. in Security Studies and B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. While his wife Katelyn completes a judicial clerkship in Brooklyn, Mitchel lives alone with their dog Karl in DC.