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Online Plum Book for Obama’s vacancies seeks applicants with ‘no history’
Plum Book
Only if you have ‘no history’, can you become part of the history of President Obama’s first administration. On the website CHANGE.GOV the process of getting the right staff for the incoming administration has started, by releasing- for the first time online – the so-called Plum Book containing 7,000 job vacancies.
With a seven-page questionnaire on your whereabouts, every little aspect of the applicant’s life is reviewed, from all his profiles on the web, to any resume ever used, to any diaries locked away. Only when you have been sitting in a room with the shutters closed for all of your life you may pass the test…
Anyone who has ever written an embarrassing or angry mail or e-mail, or made too offensive comments on blog posts, need to reconsider whether to apply: potential scandals can start small and that is to be avoided at all cause. And not only for the listing for the director of CIA, at executive pay $168,000.
The book represents a compilation of appointed jobs from all federal agencies, such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisers, and aides who report to those officials. It reveals salaries, who’s currently got the jobs and whether the job requires Senate confirmation.
The Plum Book originated in 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower was elected and Republicans took charge of the government after 22 years of Democratic control. The Republican Party requested a list of government positions that Eisenhower could fill. The next edition of the Plum Book appeared in 1960 and it has since been published just after every presidential election.
The Plum Book may be the same, but according to the Guardian, ‘Obama appears to have set a new standard for intrusiveness as recruiters try to establish a financial, personal and professional paper trail for job applicants, their spouses, and their grown-up children.’
BUt if you think you pass the test, you can start by filling in an application.
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