[quote=CA renter][quote=jimmyle]My wife works for the government. Theoretically positions are opened for everyone. However, 99% of positions are filled with relatives and friends. They post the positions online but usually just for show.
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you do not need to “know someone” to get in.[/quote][/quote]
Hogwash. I’ve worked in the public sector, as have many of my friends and family members. Not a single one got in because of connections. As a matter of fact, I know of a handful of people whose fathers were pretty high up in the public sector, and ALL of them were turned down for jobs specifically because of their family connections. The public employers didn’t want any hint of impropriety.
I’ve also worked in the private sector, and nepotism was much more prevalent there than in the public sector…MUCH more prevalent.
Conversely, I know a lot of people who work in the entertainment industry, and almost all of them are there because they had the right connections.[/quote]
Horse shit.
The fact that you were not able to get a job based on some kind of nyptisim (couldn’t even get the spell checker to figure that word out) does not conclude that it does not exist within government positions. I am sure there is varying degrees of this depending on the sector/level of worker needed but there are plenty of places where this is the only door in.
My mother is a hiring clerk at a very large county government. She complains to me every day that she sent five or six qualified candidates to a job interview only to have the hiring manager of that department come back to her with re-written job qualifications that lowers the bar to get a “buddy” in that was not qualified under current requirements nor one of the candidates that she sent.
The irony being, that for the most part, this is a unionized shop.
