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Public Service Recruitment

White House Hires First Transgender Staff Member

The White House has hired its first openly transgender full-time member of staff, according to media reports. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan started working as an outreach and recruitment director for presidential staff […]

Saudi Arabia Looking For Over 2,500 New Civil Servants

The government of Saudi Arabia has embarked on a mass recruitment exercise having advertised more than 2,500 civil service jobs. The Ministry of Civil Service yesterday published 2,586 vacancies and […]

Ajit Seth To Lead India’s Government Senior Selection Board

Former Indian cabinet secretary Ajit Seth has been appointed chair of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), which advises the government on senior appointments. Seth stepped down from his cabinet […]

Outgoing Home Office HR Chief: Attacks On Civil Servants Damage Recruitment

A retiring senior official in the UK has warned that public attacks on civil servants are “profoundly unhelpful” as a survey shows that almost two thirds of British civil servants […]

Former UK HR Boss Calls For Civil Service To Recruit Non-graduates

A retiring senior UK official is calling for the civil service to take a fresh approach to developing talent. Kevin White, who left his post of HR director at the Home […]

Australia Appoints New Higher Education Watchdog Chief

The head of the UK’s higher education watchdog is to take over the management of Australia’s equivalent organisation. Anthony McClaran, who has led the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education […]

Nigerian protest over ‘illegal’ hiring of 530 aides and cronies into senior civil service

The union representing senior government officials in Nigeria has called on the government to urgently reform its recruitment system after it has been claimed that former president Goodluck Jonathan hired […]

Nigeria announces new in-country training scheme for all civil servants

The Head of Civil Service of the Federation in Nigeria, Mr. Danladi Kifasi, has said that a Structured Mandatory Assessment-Based Training Programme (SMAT-P) has been put in place, Nigeria’s Leadership […]

Finland: Raili Lahnalampi new chief of office in foreign ministry

Raili Lahnalampi has been appointed as the new chief of office by the Finnish foreign affairs minister Timo Soini. Lahnalampi, who took up her post on 15 June, has served […]

UK civil servants get grammar lesson by new minister

Civil servants in the UK justice department have been given a grammar lesson by their new minister who wants them avoid using ‘impact’ as a verb and write “make sure” […]