All posts tagged "jobs"

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  Generative AI could worsen regional divides, OECD warns

  Generative AI could widen productivity and income gaps between cities and rural areas across a host of developed countries, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a

  • Posted December 5, 2024
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  UK’s CDDO seeks first ‘government chief engineer’, Biden administration awards $20bn for clean energy investment: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence Vacancy: the UK government seeks first chief engineer  The UK’s Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is on the hunt

  • Posted April 11, 2024
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  UK government hires chief people and digital officers; Sri Lankan PM’s office breached in protests against corruption: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK government appoints chief people officer and chief digital officer Boris Johnson, the UK’s

  • Posted July 14, 2022
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  Top job application tips for digital roles in government

  A UK civil servant has set out a series of job application tips to help would-be public servants make the most of their application for digital roles in government. In

  • Posted January 23, 2022
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  Brazil’s public sector reform bill advances through congress

  A bill that aims to shrink the state by cutting public sector pay and benefits has passed the committee stage in Brazil’s lower chamber of congress. The constitutional amendment –

  • Posted September 27, 2021
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  Former UK chancellor suggests appointing business leaders to civil service jobs

  Figures from business could be brought into top civil service management roles, former UK chancellor George Osborne has told an influential UK civil service reform panel. Osborne was speaking at

  • Posted November 5, 2020
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  UK to score ‘social value’ in awarding contracts

  The UK government has announced new measures to deliver social value through public procurement. The model, announced by the Cabinet Office last month, will require government departments to assess and

  • Posted October 9, 2020
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  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

  • Posted January 21, 2020
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  Auditor brands Canada’s Phoenix pay system an ‘incomprehensible failure’

  Canada’s auditor general has branded the Phoenix pay system an “incomprehensible failure” that is a symptom of a “much deeper cultural issue” within the federal government. Michael Ferguson called on

  • Posted June 6, 2018
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  EU urges member states to improve populations’ skills with new 10-point action plan

  The European Commission has called on member states to boost the quality of skills and their relevance for the labour market after studies showed that 70m Europeans lack adequate reading

  • Posted June 13, 2016
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