# How do Americans become government employees ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-americans-become-government-employees/252940>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 30, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-americans-become-government-employees/252940 "2004-06-30T20:17:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-americans-become-government-employees/252940/21 "2004-07-03T06:40:29Z")

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> [@Rashak Mani](#):
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> You would be surprised to know how much of this stuff still goes on around the third world. Quite common…

Why would we be surprised? I’d think good, clean government hiring is very much the exception the world over.

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