The National Weather Service is hiring — and it wants to know which of President Donald Trump’s executive orders are job seekers’ favorites.
Applications for several vacant NWS roles require candidates to describe how the U.S. Constitution motivates them, which of Trump’s executive orders are “significant to you” and how they plan to foster efficiency across government, according to a POLITICO review.
The questionnaire was posted by the NWS in an effort to fill positions at key offices across the country following the departures of hundreds of staffers from retirements, firings and voluntary resignations. The Commerce Department had authorized the NWS to advertise the job openings despite a departmentwide hiring freeze, though the agency did not take advantage of that permission for more than two months.
Prospective employees for positions in key outposts like Miami and Mobile, Alabama, which are critical to NWS’s hurricane monitoring operations, were faced with answering the questionnaire’s unconventional prompts.
