Every U.S. government agency has a "careers" or "jobs" page. Under new orders, you won't find jobs there. Or be able to apply for them. For that, go to a portal run by the Office of Personnel Management.

Benefits:

• Faster security clearance and background checks.
• Able to mine more résumés.
• Able to browse more jobs.
• Chance to simplify the application process.

Concerns:

• Privacy. Or lack thereof. Could be a Total Information Awareness branding snafu.
• Bland Branding. Forcing everyone to recruit with the same forms, the same tools, makes it harder for job seekers to tell employers apart, to choose the right jobs.
• Choked Innovation. This makes the Fed's recruiting ecosystem homogenous, succeptible to advances in computing. Also means fewer internal innovations.
• Single Point of Failure. Technically, organizationally, and fiscally.
• Raiding the Private Sector. If the economy starts generating jobs, the Feds may make the war for talent even stronger.

Suggestions:

• Federate, don't centralize. Reaffirm your investment in department career sites.
• Open the jobs database to public programmers. Follow the lead of Amazon, eBay, and Google.