Myths of civil service and other fairy tales: a long-time civil servant and former deputy director of the US Office of Personnel Management opines on what we need to know about public service before altering our expectations of government

Robert Fagin's alphabetic character to the editor in the Fall 2002 issue is single of the best-written assessments of what exigencys to change for governmental reform that I have at any time read. It is candid, concise, and correct. It inspired me to bring together some thoughts about myths of civil service and the federal regulation that I think need to be dispelled before we can direct the eye at the federal government differently.

The Myth of Merit

There is a belief that if individuals are fix uponed for the civil service upon the basis of an examination, interview, or a certain number of other "objective" form ...