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Retaining technical skills in the state

The state keeps losing engineers, planners and finance specialists faster than it replaces them.

Retaining technical skills in the state

Pay is part of it, but exit interviews point more often at the absence of a technical career path and the frustration of decisions overturned upstream.

What retains people

Clear mandates, working equipment and budgets, and a route to seniority that does not require becoming a generalist manager.

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