All posts tagged "HR"

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  Rupert McNeil, chief people officer for the UK Civil Service: exclusive interview

  Eager to bring in new skills, the British civil service is recruiting from the world of business. Fresh from the world of banking, its new HR chief explains how he

  • Posted June 15, 2016
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  Empowering your employees: How we improve inclusivity and boost efficiency

  Disability in the Civil Service remains acknowledged and worried about, but somehow rarely the subject of sustained, joined up action to ensure consistently successful outcomes. And yet there is growing evidence

  • Posted June 15, 2016
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  ‘Define people by contribution – not rank,’ says winner of public service leadership award

  Defining people by the “contribution they make rather than the level they occupy in an organisation” is key to being an effective leader, a Canadian senior civil servant who won

  • Posted May 30, 2016
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  Free course on flexible working now available to America’s civil servants

  America’s federal government has launched a free online course for civil servants to learn about flexible working opportunities. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) –  independent agency of the United

  • Posted April 8, 2016
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  Government ranked as one of Britain’s best graduate employers

  The British government’s Civil Service Fast Stream has been ranked among the country’s top five graduate employers, according to an annual table compiled by the Times newspaper. This year’s Times

  • Posted October 9, 2015
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  ‘Senior civil servants were my biggest frustration’, says former UK civil service training chief

  Departmental senior leaders showed an alarming lack of interest and commitment towards staff training and development, the civil servant who introduced a centralised training system to the UK government has

  • Posted September 8, 2015
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  Jerry Arnott, former chief executive, Civil Service Learning, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Jerry Arnott led the biggest UK government training consolidation programme in modern history. He tells Winnie Agbonlahor how he did it – and what he should have done differently “Be

  • Posted September 8, 2015
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  Canadian civil servant sacked over fabricated CVs

  A civil servant in Canada lost her job after lying on her CV for various internal job applications, the Canadian Press (CP) news agency has reported. An internal government briefing note

  • Posted August 26, 2015
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  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

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  Kevin White, Former Director-General Of HR, UK Home Office: Exclusive Interview

  After 39 years as a UK civil servant, Kevin White has just retired from his post as HR director general. He tells Global Government Forum about his views on performance

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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