Government & Public Administration

Executing governmental functions to include Governance; National Security; Foreign Service; Planning; Revenue and Taxation; Regulation; and Management and Administration of the local, state, and federal levels.

Government Jobs Can Be Found Close to Home

With more than 1.8 million civilian employees, the federal government, excluding the Postal Service, is the nation’s largest employer, according to the Career Guide to Industries at There you will find several helpful links at the left:

• Under “Agencies,” you can access a set of links that lead to an agency index, branches, departments, boards and commissions, and other organizations and contacts.
• Click on the organization chart, and you will find the Louisiana State Government Executive Branch and all of its related units. There’s also a link to each agency on the chart.
• Go to the “Local Governments” You will find links to information about parish governments and to a Municipal Directory. Whatever government Web sites you review – national, state, or local – you may very well link to a government job close to home in Louisiana.

National Career Readiness Certificate

Court, Municipal, and License Clerks, Court, municipal, and license clerks perform clerical duties in courts of law, municipalities, and governmental licensing agencies and bureaus.

The job requires:

• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
• Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process