On December 12, 1848, registration for the civil service examination, which had a far-reaching impact on Austria, began, which marked a fundamental change in the way Austria selected talents.
Although this exam is still an internal competition among nobles, it is better to have competition than no competition.
Here the fallen nobles were given the opportunity to return to the center of power, and the Austrian government once again gained their support.
A series of positions in government agencies, state-owned enterprises, and teachers have added up to provide nearly 130,000 positions for the society, and a total of more than 186,000 people have applied for the exam.
If this competition rate is placed in future generations, it is estimated that many people will celebrate with each other, but in this era, many people are still complaining and under great pressure.
In a tavern in Vienna, a teenager in his twenties complained: "Damn, Raul, do you know what the Ministry of Finance is going to do this time, we have all entered the second round, why do we need to take the exam?"
"Come on, Weigel. Everyone knows that we entered the second round without taking the test. I heard that the number of applicants for the Ministry of Finance has exceeded 8,000, and the number of recruits is only 876, with a pass rate of ten to one.
To weed out the vast majority of candidates, is there a faster way besides the exam
If you are afraid of competition, you can apply for grassroots teachers. There are many places there, and the number of applicants is small. "Raul took a sip of wine and said with a smile.
He is not afraid of exams. He was an honor student in school. Compared with his friend Weigel, who is a scumbag, he has enough confidence to pass the exam.
Exam cheating? Don't even think about it, don't even look at who can take the exam, a bunch of nobles are making trouble, who can hold it back.
If you have a strong network of connections, you have already been mixed into the civil service, why come here to compete
"Forget it, I don't want to live in the country, no bars, no friends, it will kill me!" Weigel shook his head and said
Compared with the real power departments, the teacher positions recruited by the Ministry of Education are much more tragic. When many people hear that they are going to teach in the countryside, their expressions change one by one.
It was planned to recruit 50,000 teachers, but less than 20,000 registered. To recruit enough teachers, the Ministry of Education had to build schools around towns.
Anyway, the government bears all the expenses for compulsory education, and it is okay to centralize the management of students. The big deal is to adopt a boarding system.
In most areas, the government has seized a large amount of real estate belonging to the chaos of the party, and it can be used as a school building if it is renovated.
Even so, there were still not many applicants for primary school teaching positions, and the Ministry of Education had to reduce the number of recruits in the end.
Anyway, it is impossible for compulsory education to spread to the whole country all at once. It takes time to gradually promote it. If there are not enough teachers, it can be cultivated gradually. The teacher training class of the Ministry of Education has already recruited foreign students.
"Then there is only competition. You must know that the most competitive Senate secretary only recruited two people, and more than 800 people signed up, and the number of applicants is still growing.
God, the probability of passing is less than 1 in 400, but there are still people who dare to go, and I have to admire their courage. "Raul said in a very exaggerated tone.
A man next to him interjected: "What's so strange, the secretary of the Senate serves the cabinet government and dangles in front of a group of bigwigs every day, and there is much room for improvement in the future.
Everyone wants to go to the sky in one step. If they are lucky enough to pass the test, they will make a lot of money. If they fail to pass the test, they will waste a little registration fee. "
"Speaking of this, I'm a little tempted. Anyway, the examination time of each department is not the same. It's better to try it." Raul thought for a while and said.
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This civil service exam is not conducted uniformly, and the talents required by each department are different, and Franz is not prepared to recruit a group of all-rounders.
Therefore, everyone's recruitment conditions are different. Some departments are highly competitive, and they are conducting written tests and interviews. Some departments have too few applicants and are not qualified to be picky, as long as they meet the basic requirements.
Since it was the first time to take the exam, no one knew what they would take the exam. As long as the candidates were in a hurry, they would have no direction if they wanted to make a temporary attack.
Not only are they ignorant, but even the government ministries and commissions who presided over the exam are a little forced. Everyone has no experience and has to learn from foreign talent selection systems.
This year, the most popular in Europe is still the gift system, and Austria has come to the forefront of the world and took the lead in breaking this system.
The closest thing to the Austrian civil service examination was the imperial examination system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If it weren't for the lack of time, the cabinet would be ready to send someone to inspect it.
In the end, it was Franz who personally helped to come up with the idea. Although he had not presided over the civil service examination, he had taken many exams in his previous life and had rich experience of being eliminated.
Schönbrunn Palace
Prime Minister Felix frowned and said: "Your Majesty, this civil service examination, we have provided 128,939 positions and a total of 589,656 applicants. There is a serious case of one person applying for multiple departments at the same time, and there are nearly 35,000 candidates. No one is interested in jobs, mostly concentrated in the education sector.
Taking into account this situation, the government decided to cancel these unregistered positions, and at the same time banned those who applied for multiple departments by one person, and only recognized the departments that applied for the exam first. "
The civil service examination in Austria is naturally impossible to be as subdivided as the Internet era, and it is accurate to every specific position.
Now only the ministries are applying for the exam, and the final specific positions are allocated according to the actual situation. Except for a few departments that only recruit a few people, the specific positions are clarified, and others are unknown.
For example, those who apply for the tax department may stay in Vienna, or go to Croatia, or they may become tax inspectors and run around the country. The specific position arrangement will not be known until the end of the exam.
Hearing that there were so many jobs that no one was interested in, Franz couldn't help rubbing his forehead. It was because he was worried that there would be no applicants for jobs in remote areas, so he grouped all recruiters into ministries and commissions, and then allocated them at the end.
Unexpectedly, even so, there are not enough people. At this time, he was wondering whether to select a part from other departments to fill the hole.
After hesitating for a while, he finally gave up the plan, the melon that was bitten was not sweet. There will definitely be grievances for such a fool, and in the end, this grievance will be brought into the work, affecting the purity of the government team.
"All the positions that no one applies for can be cancelled. If there is a shortage of people, we will cultivate it ourselves. It is estimated that even if the exam is passed, many people do not want to go to the backcountry.
Even if they don't want to go, we can't make it difficult. Aren't there demobilized soldiers in the army? The children of nobles in these remote corners don't look down on them, and the soldiers don't look down on them, right
Select literate soldiers, train them, and serve as low-level civil servants in remote areas.
For the situation of one person applying for multiple positions, this time it's fine. We didn't make any regulations in advance. Their approach is legal, so they should learn from it.
However, after passing the examination for a ministry, they cannot continue to take the examination for the next ministry, and the registration fee will not be refunded. "
Franz did not mention the issue of transferred officers. In this era, the officers of the Austrian army were basically of noble origin. Even if he himself did not have the title of noble, their parents, grandparents, and uncles would always be nobles.
As children of nobles, their treatment is different. The rank in the army before retiring will have the same treatment after changing jobs.
In other words, they were officers in the army, and they were also officers after changing jobs. If the ability is insufficient and incompetent, then it can only be downgraded, but the salary will not be reduced.
Of course, this is only limited to those with military merit. Officers without military merit who change jobs will not have such good treatment.
Franz's proposal to select and cultivate talents from soldiers is also limited to meritorious officials, and major soldiers without military exploits are naturally not within the scope of training.
Franz understands very well the candidates who apply for the exam repeatedly. He also experienced it back then. Everyone wants one more chance and one more choice. However, this will increase the workload of the recruitment department.
Franz still has integrity. Since the government has not made it clear in advance, he cannot shirk his responsibility. If the workload is increased, the workload will be increased, and the hole dug by himself is responsible for filling it.
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The government canceled more than 35,000 jobs at once, and the ratio of opening exams has finally climbed to 2:1, which means that the competition is cruel.
Various recruiting units are still worrying about the questions, and European public opinion is already boiling.
The mainstream media have expressed their views one after another, with support and opposition. In short, the civil service examination in Austria has become the focus of European society.
Engels published an article on the Rheinische Zeitung, fully affirming the Austrian government's civil service examination system.
The reason is very simple. The restrictions announced by the Austrian government exclude the bourgeoisie, but they do not restrict the working class and peasant class.
In theory, as long as their academic qualifications arrive, they can enter the government system through selection.
Coupled with the compulsory education proposed by the Austrian government some time ago, many ~~ists believe that the Austrian government is actively reforming and preparing to absorb the working class into the government.
Well, Franz will not explain this beautiful misunderstanding. It is always a good thing to have more supporters.
As an emperor, what he needs is a group of people whose loyalty is on the pass line to help him manage the country well. As for the origin of these people, it doesn't matter.
It can only be said that in the face of different national conditions, different employment mechanisms are adopted. In Austria, it is necessary to rely heavily on the nobility. If it is in Britain and France, then the bourgeoisie can also be the backbone of the country.
This is determined by the social environment. If there is no deep-rooted aristocracy and no powerful bourgeoisie in an emerging country, then the working class and peasant class can also become a national pillar.
If he reforms blindly and deviates from the class that supports him, then Wang Mang is the best example.