7000 Government Jobs Available

You may have wondered how many jobs in President-Elect Barack Obama need to be filled in his new administration. Well how about this number.... 7,000. Included are 15 Cabinet positions and nearly 200 ambassadorships as well as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisers, and top aides to those officials. Most of the positions will require presidential appointment. Also, the application that you must fill is not short with only basic information. Instead, you will be required to prepare a 7-page 63 item questionnaire. This document is very detailed, and leaves no stone left unturned regarding the applicant's life, including information about family members and very personal information. It also asks about writings, speeches, testimony, online communications and even personal diaries.

According to a report on the CNN website, "An entire section requests details on any criminal or civil legal action in which the applicant may have been involved. The last question in that 11-item section asks for details on any child support or alimony orders."

"In an apparent effort to avoid the problems faced by several nominees in the last two administrations, a block of four questions is devoted to ferreting out details -- including the immigration status -- of any domestic help the applicant may have hired."

"Question 61 seems to have been prompted by the controversy over former 1960s radical William Ayres in Obama's campaign: "Have you had any association with any person, group or business venture that could be used -- even unfairly -- to impugn or attack your character or qualifications for government service?""

"Under the final, "Miscellaneous" category, the questionnaire asks for the names and phone numbers of past live-in lovers; whether anyone in the applicant's family owns a gun; the state of the applicant's health; and whether he or she has any enemies."