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2. USAJobs - Wikipedia

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   USAJobs (styled USAJOBS) is the United States government's website for listing civil service job opportunities with federal agencies. [1] [2] Federal agencies use USAJOBS to host job openings and match qualified applicants to those jobs.

3. United States federal civil service - Wikipedia

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   In the early 19th century, positions in the federal government were held at the pleasure of the president—a person could be fired at any time. The spoils system meant that jobs were used to support the American political parties, though this was gradually changed by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and subsequent laws. By 1909 ...

4. Schedule F appointment - Wikipedia

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   The legal basis for the Schedule Policy/Career appointment is a section of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character".

5. Political appointments in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job. A common conception of the federal government's merit system principles is that they are designed to ensure fair and open recruitment and competition and employment practices free of political influence or other non-merit factors.

6. General Schedule (US civil service pay scale) - Wikipedia

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   The pay scale was originally created with the purpose of keeping federal salaries in line with equivalent private sector jobs. Although never the intent, the GS pay scale does a good job of ensuring equal pay for equal work by reducing pay gaps between men, women, and minorities, in accordance with another, separate law, the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

7. Government employees in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Local government employees State government employees Federal government employees (The blip up in hiring at the Federal level every 10 years is for the United States census) In the United States, government employees includes the U.S. federal civil service, employees of the state governments, and employees of local governments. [citation needed]