On December 12, 1848, registration for the civil service examination, which had a profound impact on Austria, began to be registered, marking a fundamental change in the way talent was selected in Austria.

Although this exam is still an internal competition among the nobles, it is better to have competition than no competition.

Here the aristocracy fell, and the opportunity to return to the center of power was obtained, and the Austrian government once again gained their support.

A series of positions in government agencies, state-owned enterprises, and teachers have provided nearly 130,000 jobs for the society, and more than 186,000 people have applied for the examination.

If this competition rate is placed in the future generations, it is estimated that many people will celebrate with the crown, but in this era, many people are still complaining about the pressure.

In a tavern in Vienna, a teenager in his twenties complained: "Damn, Raul, you know what the Ministry of Finance is going to do this time, why do we have to take exams when we are all in the second round?" ”

"Come on, Wigel. As everyone knows, we are exempt from the second round. I heard that the number of applicants for the Ministry of Finance has exceeded 8,000, but the number of recruits is only 876, with a 10-to-1 pass rate.

Is there a faster way to weed out the vast majority of candidates than to take the exam?

If you are afraid of competition, you can apply for the grassroots teacher examination, 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, and he is confident enough to pass the exam compared to his friend Wigel, a scumbag.

Exam cheating? If you don't think about it, you don't have to look at who can take the exam, a bunch of nobles are making trouble, who can hold it.

If you have a strong network, you would have been mixed into the civil service a long time ago, so why bother to compete here?

"Forget it, I don't want to mess around in the country, no bars, no friends, that will kill me!" Wigel shook his head and said

Compared with the real power department, the teaching positions recruited by the Ministry of Education are much more tragic, and many people have changed their faces when they hear that they are going to teach in the countryside.

Plans were made to recruit 50,000 teachers, but less than 20,000 signed up. In order to recruit enough teachers, the Ministry of Education had to build schools around towns.

Anyway, the government bears all the costs of compulsory education, and it is okay to centralize the management of students, but it is a big deal to adopt a boarding system.

In most areas, the government has confiscated a large number of real estate belonging to the party, which can be used as school buildings if it is renovated.

Even so, there were still not many applicants for primary school teacher positions, and the Ministry of Education had to cut the number of recruits.

Anyway, compulsory education cannot be popularized throughout the country at once, it takes time to gradually promote, and if there are not enough teachers, it can be slowly trained, and the teacher training class of the Ministry of Education has already recruited students.

"Then there will only be competition, you must know that the most competitive senate secretary, only two people are recruited, and there are actually more than 800 people who have signed up, and the number of applicants is still growing.

God, the odds of passing are not even 1 in 400, and 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 he dangles in front of a group of bigwigs every day, and there is much room for rise in the future."

Everyone wants to climb to the sky in one step, and if you are lucky enough to be admitted, then you will make a lot of money, and if you can't pass the exam, it will be a big deal to waste a little registration fee. ”

"Speaking of which, I'm a little tempted, anyway, the exam time of each department is not the same, so it's better to try." Raul thought for a moment and said

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This civil service examination was not conducted uniformly, the talents required by each department were not the same, and Franz was not prepared to recruit a group of all-rounders.

Therefore, everyone's recruitment conditions are not the same, some departments are fiercely competitive, written examinations, interviews are being conducted, and some departments have too few applicants and no picky qualifications, as long as the basic conditions are met.

Since it was the first time to take the exam, no one knew what it would take, and as long as the candidates were in a hurry, they had no direction if they wanted to make a temporary assault.

Not only did they not know, but even the government ministries and commissions that presided over the examination were somewhat confused, and everyone had no experience and had to learn from foreign talent selection systems.

In this year, the most popular system in Europe was still the gift system, and Austria was at the forefront of the world, taking the lead in breaking this system.

The closest thing to the Austrian civil service examination is actually the imperial examination system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if it is not for the time is too tight, the cabinet is ready to send people to investigate.

In the end, Franz personally helped to come up with the idea, although he did not preside over the civil service examination, but he participated in it many times in his previous life and had rich experience in being eliminated.

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Prime Minister Felix frowned and said: "Your Majesty, in this civil service examination, we have provided a total of 128939 positions, a total of 589656 applicants, there is a serious situation where one person applies for multiple departments at the same time, and there are nearly 35,000 positions that no one cares about, most of which are concentrated in the education department.

In view of this situation, the government has decided to cancel these unregistered positions, and at the same time ban the application of one person for multiple departments, and only recognize the departments that apply for the examination first. ”

Naturally, the Austrian civil service examination cannot be as subdivided as in the Internet era, and it is accurate to every specific position.

Now only the ministries and commissions are applying for the examination, and the final specific position is deployed according to the actual situation, except for a few departments that only recruit a few people, and the specific positions are clarified, everything else is unknown.

For example, if you apply for the tax department, you may stay in Vienna, you may go to Croatia, and you may become a tax inspector to run around the country, and the specific position arrangement will not be known until the end of the exam.

Hearing that there were so many positions that no one cared for, Franz couldn't help but rub his forehead, it was because he was worried that no one would apply for the positions in remote areas, so he put all the recruiters into the ministry and then assigned them at the end.

I didn't expect that even so, there would be not enough people. At this time, he was wondering whether to select some from other departments to fill the hole.

hesitated for a moment, and finally dispelled this calculation, the melon bitten was not sweet. If you cheat people like this, there will definitely be resentment, and in the end, this resentment will be brought into the work, affecting the purity of the government team.

"All positions that no one has applied for can be cancelled, and if there is a shortage of people, we will train ourselves. It is estimated that even if they pass the exam, many people do not want to go to the backwoods.

If they don't want to go, we can't force others. Isn't there a demobilized soldier in the army, these noble children in remote corners can't look down on it, and the soldiers won't look down on it, right?

Literate soldiers are selected from among them, trained to serve as grassroots civil servants in remote areas.

In the case of one person applying for multiple positions, forget it this time, we did not make provisions in advance, their practice is legal, and we should learn a lesson.

However, after passing one ministry, they cannot continue to take the next ministry exam, and the registration fee will not be refunded. ”

Franz did not mention the issue of demobilized officers, the officers of the Austrian army in this era were basically from noble backgrounds, even if he himself did not have a noble title, their parents, grandparents, and uncles would always be noble.

As the children of the nobility, they are treated differently. The rank in the army before retirement has the same treatment after changing jobs.

In other words, they are officers in the army, and they are also officers after they are transferred. If you are not competent and incompetent, then you can only be demoted, but your salary will not be reduced.

Of course, this is limited to those with military merit. Officers who do not have military merits will not be treated so well.

Franz's proposal to select and train talents from among soldiers is also limited to meritorious soldiers, and the big-headed soldiers who have no military merits are naturally not within the scope of training.

For candidates who apply for the exam repeatedly, Franz is very understanding, he also experienced it back then, and everyone wants one more chance and one more choice. It's just that in this way, it will increase the workload of the recruitment department.

Franz still has a temperance, since the government did not make it clear in advance, then it cannot shirk its responsibility, and it is good to increase the workload, and fill the pit he dug himself.

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The government canceled more than 35,000 jobs at once, and the ratio of exams finally climbed to 2:1, which is a bit of cruel competition.

The various recruiters are still worried about the questions, and European public opinion has boiled.

The mainstream media have expressed their opinions, some for and some against, in short, the civil service examination in Austria has become the focus of European society.

Engels published an article in 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, after excluding the bourgeoisie, did not restrict the working class and the peasant class.

Theoretically, as long as their academic qualifications are reached, 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, this beautiful misunderstanding, Franz will not come out to explain, it is always a good thing to have an extra bunch of supporters.

As an emperor, he needs a group of people who are loyal to the passing line to help him run the country well, and it doesn't matter where they come from.

It can only be said that in the face of different national conditions, different employment mechanisms are adopted. In Austria it was necessary to rely on the aristocracy, and in England and France, the bourgeoisie could also be the backbone of the state.

This is determined by the social environment, if in a new country, there is no entrenched aristocracy, there is no powerful bourgeoisie, then the working class and the peasant class can also become a pillar of the state.

If you blindly reform and deviate from the class that supports you, then Wang Mang is the best example.