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By John Nolan, Staff Writer Updated 7:46 AM Thursday, October 20, 2011

DAYTON — Recruiters at the TechNet-Aero conference job fair said they saw a steady flow of candidates on Wednesday with the necessary skills. But with some government hiring slowing down, their chances of getting a public-sector job are diminishing.

The aerospace industry job fair attracted about 700 candidates last year but attendance appeared to be down at the two-day event this week, said project coordinator Heather Blakely of Cox Media Group Ohio, a conference sponsor that managed the job fair. Cox Media publishes the Dayton Daily News.

Candidates for information technology, financial and program management, engineer and intelligence analyst positions turned out for a second day Wednesday to meet with government and industry employers.

Candidates provided employment histories and chatted with recruiters from the Aeronautical Systems Center and Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; defense contracting companies including CACI International Inc., MacAulay-Brown Inc., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Serco Inc. and Greentree Group, and educational institutions Sinclair Community College and University of Phoenix.

The Air Force earlier this year slowed its hiring of civilian personnel and ended temporary job appointments, and the Obama administration has begun hiring some employees of defense contractors into the federal work force to give the government greater control over acquisition operations.

CACI recruiter John Gaskill said some of the candidates he spoke with had worked for Computer Sciences Corp. in Beavercreek until being recently laid off when the Air Force suspended work on one phase of the Expeditionary Combat Support System project. Computer Sciences is the prime contractor on the multi-year project to modernize the systemwide computer network the Air Force uses to manage acquisition and personnel operations.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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