CHICAGO – CareerBuilder.com, one of the nation’s largest online job networks, has launched a new section serving the online recruitment needs of federal, state, and local government agencies and organizations. Located at http://gov.careerbuilder.com, it already reaches a wide range of qualified public sector workers. Now, with the new section up and running, government employers can fill open positions by marketing themselves to a new national audience of private-sector workers.

The need for faster and more efficient recruitment services is top of mind for government employers.

The Office of Personnel Management estimates that 32% of the federal work force will be eligible for retirement in the next five years. That number rises to 52% when taking into account those potentially opting for early retirement.

At the same time, four in 10 government workers surveyed byCareer-Builder.comsaid they plan to leave their present positions in the next two years to pursue opportunities inside and outside the public sector.

Although 57% of government workers say they are satisfied with their jobs, 18% are currently looking for a new job on a weekly basis to take advantage of new vacancies.

“Government employers are recruiting the same type of candidates we see in the commercial world, but are not actively participating in that recruitment environment,” said Stanley Paul, general manager of CareerBuilder.com’s Government Services. “Career-Builder.com is committed to helping the government become an employer of choice and currently receives more than 800,000 searches for government jobs each month. Our vast distribution network provides government employers with an untapped pool of talented, diverse workers and, in turn, gives qualified candidates access to government employers they may never have considered.”

CareerBuilder.com’s government site features top jobs from national, state, and local government employers, links to the latest government news, and application forms required by the government to apply for jobs. Interested job seekers can immediately apply for jobs and sign up for employment alerts to have government positions automatically emailed to them.

The Web site’s online recruitment services offer integration with government career sites, where employer job postings are distributed across Career-Builder.com’snetwork.

Owned by Tribune Company, Gannett, and Knight Ridder, Career-Builder.com features jobs from the classifieds sections of more than 130 newspapers. It powers the career sites for more than 400 partners with over 1,200 Web sites reaching national, local, industry, and niche audiences. These partners include Navy Times, Army Times, Marine Times, and Airforce Times, as well as leading Internet portals such as America Online and MSN.

In June, CareerBuilder.com announced it has partnered with the Department of Labor’s President’s National Hire Veterans Committee, a new organization focused on promoting the value of hiring American veterans in the public and private sectors.