A Shreveport firefighter fired after a failed drug test just got his job back. The civil service board voted 4-3 to reinstate Zachary Fox, and the fire chief ordered an immediate drug test right there ...

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NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — The application process for a city job just got a little easier. Civil service exam fees are now being waived for New York City high school students and first-time test takers, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County is sharing details about civil service exams for people looking to become a police officer or a deputy sheriff. Applicants need to be between ages 19 and 43. To be ...

Every year, around results season, a particular kind of silence descends over the coaching lanes of Mukherjee Nagar and the cramped study rooms of Prayagraj. The Union Public Service Commission has ...

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New York City offers a lesser-known pathway into municipal employment: positions that bypass the standard civil service exam while still providing the benefits that make public-sector work attractive.

Every person has two things that show others who they are: their physical attributes and their mental ones. Our physical selves are easy to note. The mental ones are trickier. Most government workers ...

The New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services has released its February application schedule for civil service exams. Open, competitive, computer-based tests are administered ...

Not all resistance takes place in the streets. It can also unfold quietly inside institutions that shape law and policy. For more than a century, Americans have taken pride in a professional civil ...

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