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±õ’m Jung, a second-year PhD in Public Policy student in the School of Public Policy and Administration. After doing my undergraduate degree here at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ in Arthur Kroeger College and leaving to go to UBC for my Master’s, I was drawn back to the more practically oriented research that I had been exposed to in this faculty briefly during my Bachelor’s. Given my proximity with the government here – as bureaucrat, as student, and as citizen – I was increasingly puzzled by why some of the colleagues I most looked up to were rejecting promising careers in the public service. My thesis focuses on this problem – specifically, why »å´Ç²Ô’t the ‘best and brightest’ want to work for the Canadian public service, where do they want to go, and how can the government attract these talented prospects? Despite this age-old problem, my professors have been urging me to re-think the causal mechanisms driving it and have been exacting in their critique of my work; it’s this mix of theoretical rigor, innovative reflection, and grounding in reality they bring that pulled me back to ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and continues to push me to be a better version of myself each day.