How the Trump era is changing the federal bureaucracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-trump-era-is-changing-the-federal-bureaucracy/2017/12/30/8d5149c6-daa7-11e7-b859-fb [login to see] _story.html?utm_term=.fd2e8415518d
"By the end of September, all Cabinet departments except Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and Interior had fewer permanent staff than when Trump took office in January — with most shedding many hundreds of employees, according to an analysis of federal personnel data by The Washington Post." You have to do everything right when trying to get hired as the competition will be higher.