All posts tagged "Recruitment"
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Indonesian regional heads call for end to civil service recruitment freeze
Regional political leaders in Indonesia have called for president Joko Widodo to lift a moratorium on the recruitment of civil servants. The moratorium came into effect on 1 January 2015
- Posted July 16, 2018
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Understanding the aspirations of young public sector professionals, ACCA publishes Generation Next: managing talent in the public sector
Young professional accountants in the public sector are an optimistic group who look to a long-term future – but employers need to take heed of their work preferences ACCA’s ambitious
- Posted July 9, 2018
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Courting capability, part 1: tempting talent into civil services
In many countries, the pressures to cut budgets and introduce digital services have created a need for technical professionals at the most senior levels of government – but most civil
- Posted June 19, 2018
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Canadian federal jobs on the rise for second year
The number of public servants employed by the Canadian federal government has increased for the second consecutive year, new figures from Statistics Canada show. An additional 3,717 federal public servants
- Posted December 14, 2017
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China’s civil service exams attract 1.6m entrants
China’s national civil service exam – or guokao – is set to be fiercely contested this year, after 1.56m job seekers registered by the deadline of Wednesday 8 November. Of
- Posted November 13, 2017
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Canadian leaders told to bring on the next generation
The head of Canada’s federal public service has called on its senior managers to provide better support for student entrants and early career civil servants. Michael Wernick, clerk of the
- Posted November 9, 2017
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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
- Posted October 30, 2017
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US federal civil service is “broken”, says NAPA
The US federal civil service system is “fundamentally broken” and reforms are urgently needed, a prestigious Washington think-tank has warned in a new report. The National Academy of Public Administration
- Posted August 9, 2017
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Tatiana Janeckova, Head of the Civil Service Office, Government Office of the Slovak Republic: Interview
For over two years Slovakia has been quietly pursuing a radical set of civil service reforms, with the goal of creating a more professional, skilled and motivated workforce. The programme’s architect Tatiana
- Posted July 12, 2017
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UK reforms Fast Stream tests to broaden intake
The UK civil service graduate scheme has scrapped its online verbal and numerical reasoning tests because they have been shown to disadvantage poorer applicants. Instead, the initial application process for
- Posted October 5, 2016