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Talent Management & Retention

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 […]

Fostering talent: developing the leaders of tomorrow

Many organisations have access to reams of data but lack the tools to analyse and utilise it effectively. This is just as true in HR teams as in any other […]

US Digital Service recruitment reforms set for roll-out

A pilot programme that streamlines the US government’s federal hiring process is to be expanded, according to an update to the President’s Management Agenda published last month.   The US […]

OPM urges US federal agencies to hire military spouses and ex-prisoners

The US government aims to increase diversity within the federal workforce by encouraging human capital officers to take full advantage of two existing hiring programmes that make it easier for […]

One in ten US staff sought new job after shutdown, official survey finds

Nearly half of US federal employees saw their work undermined or pay packets hit during the government shutdown last winter, according to the annual survey of American civil servants, with […]

UK civil service to expand ex-offender recruitment programme

The UK’s Civil Service Commission chief executive, Peter Lawrence, has appealed to colleagues to join a scheme that finds work for ex-prisoners in the civil service. In a blog post […]