Public Service Career & Professions

Career highlights: civil service leaders share their proudest moments

From supporting victims of crime to developing future talent and nurturing authentic leadership – officials share their memorable work moments. Kate Hodge reports Sometimes in the melee of work, we […]

Australian Public Service launches data profession

The Australian Public Service (APS) has launched its data professional stream, in a bid to boost the APS’s data capabilities and improve its gathering, management and deployment of data. Underpinned […]

Official review aims to boost science capability in UK government

Plans should be developed to ensure the UK civil service has the scientific skills it needs and the mechanisms to deploy them effectively, according to an official review of science […]

Opinion: Labour’s appointment plans say little about civil servants, but much about politicians

Last week, unnamed Labour sources floated the idea of letting politicians directly appoint departmental leaders. Matt Ross argues that the plan fails to understand either government or management – and […]

Indian PM gives former officials ministerial jobs as focus on delivery grows

Former civil servants and diplomats are increasingly being given Cabinet ranking or ministerial jobs in Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s second term – bringing more delivery experience into the top […]

Former Canadian attorney general releases tape of call with Cabinet secretary

Canada’s former attorney general and justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, has released an audio recording to support her claim that she came under pressure from prime minister Justin Trudeau and the […]

Unions slam UK’s 1980s civil service blacklist

Trade unionists are to write to the UK Cabinet Office to ask whether it continues to keep a blacklist of civil servants, following revelations about a covert 1980s exercise which […]

Hunt for New Zealand’s first CTO is widened

The search for New Zealand’s first chief technology officer is to continue, after the government decided not to make an appointment from among the 60 applicants. An appointment for the […]

Former civil service head to chair new Enterprise Singapore agency

The former head of Singapore’s civil service, Peter Ong Boon Kwee, has been appointed as chairman-designate of a new public agency charged with helping the city-state’s businesses succeed in global […]

Hong Kong to recruit over 5,000 civil servants

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to increase the number of civil servants in the territory by three per cent during the next financial year. More […]