The Federal Government has a tough time shaking the image of a tangled brier patch of old bureaucratic laws and even older bureaucratic men, but times times are indeed a’ changing. As the use of computers becomes so widespread that even the stodgy fed has to start integrating digitally, struggling college graduates comfortable in a digital world have a better shot at employment than ever.
Civil service (the term for federal employment) used to entail filling out dozens of complicated forms having to painfully shoulder-charge your way through several agencies until the first major disruptive innovation came in the form of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 creating the Office of Personnel Management. This act allowed the new OPM to serve as a management hub for all things civil service making for a greatly simplified system.
Now a days, the OPM runs usajobs.gov, a front page portal for almost all federal employment. New applicants don’t have to fill out forms by hand, mail in documents or even handle any form of hard text, everything is completely digital.
I personally am attempting to secure a job in the DC area, and with usajobs.gov going through another re-haul just days ago I am stoked that all of my time filling out forms for the most trivial of things on the internet has given me the skills to get through the employment process. For all you liberal arts graduates out there, you might want to throw your hat in with the digital dinosaurs in the government for a job.
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