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Trump-mandated tests are making it hard to hire seasonal workers for national parks, critics say


| Updated: March 8, 2021, 10:05 p.m.
Her current residence may technically be the back of a Ford F-150, but Utah’s rugged canyon country is where she has made her career and home.
After spending nine years as a commercial raft guide and several seasons as a National Park Service ranger, her resume highlights those skills: a familiarity with remote wilderness travel, technical search and rescue experience, and the ability to row a raft through whitewater rapids, to name a few.
But this year, when the ranger was applying for seasonal jobs with the Interior Department along with thousands of hopeful candidates across the United States, her application was ranked by a new metric: her ability to complete complex logic and reading comprehension problems on a timed, online multiple-choice test. ....

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