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Talent Management & Retention

‘A very curious own goal’: UK ministers criticised for civil service fast stream pause

The UK government’s move to pause its civil service graduate recruitment scheme represents “a curious own goal” that will have management consultants “rubbing their hands that they don’t have to […]

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How can public and civil services support people with disabilities into senior roles?

While progress has been made in many civil services to increase the representation of women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds in leadership positions, the number of senior civil servants […]
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UK civil service faces further job cuts; call to hike Canadian public service’s bilingual bonus: management and workforce news in brief

Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed UK Treasury minister hints at further civil service job cuts The UK civil […]

‘Bursts and explosions of creativity’ and being risk smart: lessons from responsive governments

Coronavirus forced public and civil services around the world to respond at a pace rarely seen to the public health and economic emergency. Panellists at a recent Global Government Forum […]

New Canadian government faces US$1.97bn class action lawsuit

After the polls close in the Canadian federal election scheduled for 20 September, the newly-formed government will have to decide its next steps on a C$2.5bn (US$1.97bn) class action lawsuit […]

India expands external hires into senior jobs

India’s government is chipping away at the country’s rigid civil service hierarchy, with a new scheme for hiring external experts directly into senior roles normally preserved for the elite cadre […]

How strengths-based recruitment can help civil services attract neurodiverse talent

When considering how to build balanced teams, it can be more beneficial to recruit based on individual characteristics rather than focusing on diagnoses, write chartered psychologist Dr Nancy Doyle and […]

Biden rolls back Trump’s clampdown on diversity training

Within hours of becoming US president yesterday, Joe Biden signed an executive order to rescind his predecessor Donald Trump’s ban on government contractors providing some forms of diversity training. Biden’s new order […]

UK government follows US with ban on unconscious bias training

The UK government is phasing out unconscious bias training for civil servants and encouraging all public sector bodies to follow suit, in a move that echoes a similar decision by […]

US CIO Council calls for higher pay and faster recruitment in IT roles

The USA’s Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council is calling on the government to implement a special pay system and improve recruitment processes for IT workers in order to attract […]