Folks do try this, but since government hiring goes through the Office of Personnel Management (that is the "central office" you were referring to), they find t

Folks do try this, but since government hiring goes through the Office of Personnel Management (that is the "central office" you were referring to), they find that there are far more folks who meet these specs than they think. Especially once the veteran preference gets added into the mix. I work part-time with the department of interior, and they've tried writing job specs like this, and the person they wanted to hire has never made it through OPM. > It could be that when writing a RFQ that there is a similar method: one decides first what product/team you want, then write the RFQ to match that product/team. This is done all the time in private industry as well. "Politics" isn't limited just to governments.