Published: 15 October 2015
The article presents the results of comprehensive assessment of professional and personal qualities of the civil servants of the category "leaders", held in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in 2015. Particular attention is paid to the corpus based content analysis of the essays, drawn up by the officials, using the program UAM CorpusTool 3.0. It was found that the motivation of civil servants depends on the work experience in the executive authority and on the age of the employees. Managers with no experience of public service are careful in the work, they concern about the form and doesn’t pay big attention to the content of activity. Civil servants with experience over 20 years realize and use their powers, know the law and know how to use procedural rules to achieve economic performance, but at the same time they are motivated to obtain personal advantages, that, probably, is a consequence of the high stressogenic of their experience in public service.