PDP Annual Report: For Fiscal Year 2004

The Professional Development Program (PDP) was established in 2001 as part of GAO's strategic objective to become the professional services employer of choice--one that recruits and retains outstanding employees and is considered an excellent place to work. The PDP has made major contributions to achieving GAO's goals by developing and training new staff to succeed. Now that we have completed our third full year of operations, we would like to share some of the highlights and successes of the PDP program that contributed to personal and professional growth of new staff and their supervisors as well as organizational growth of GAO. We are pleased to present the PDP's third annual report, which combines our assessment of what we accomplished in fiscal year 2004 with our plans for continued progress in fiscal year 2005.