I’m American so I don’t think we have any such thing so it’s hard for me to wrap my head around.
[The Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service?wprov=sfti1#) makes it sound like it’s all non elected government employees, but it’s hard for me to imagine a single exam that you need to pass to become a post office worker or a DMV worker or something like that.
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I worked as an exam analyst for my department, my job is to design those exam people take.
To work for a government agency, there are few ways to go about:
1. Get elected, pretty obvious, people vote you into the office i.e. representatives, presidents, judges, etc.
2. Appointed, someone from the top like the governor or president pick someone as their cabinet or head of the department/agency. They may be pull from outside or may be from:
3. Rank and File. This is where the civil service exam comes in. As government entities, all hiring process have to make sure they don’t violate any civil rights and labor laws and attempt to stop managers from favoritism and nepotism or just picking random people off the street agencies create the civil service exam system. This is so that instead of just looking at a resume or in person interview where there are so much bias can occur, things are sorted out by how well you know about the job by given a ranking. Used to be, the exam are long and takes months to set up, even longer to get the results back, but now in this day and age most department just use a training and experience type exam where the candidate answer how many years of experience doing so and so and scored accordingly and candidates get their results back immediately.
The exam itself is not a singular exam: based on the job, each exam will ask specific question related to the job duties, so an exam for accountant will be different than an exam for office clerk.
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