All posts tagged "Recruitment"

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  Cummings extends grip over special advisers with central recruitment

  UK PM Boris Johnson and his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, are shaking up the way ministerial aides are appointed, in what is seen as yet another move towards central control.

  • Posted March 1, 2020
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  Driving digital: the challenge of building tech skills – and the solutions

  Competing with businesses to recruit in tech jobs markets, many governments struggle to develop the capabilities for digital delivery. At the Government Digital Summit, senior leaders from 16 countries swapped

  • Posted February 26, 2020
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  UK PM’s chief adviser ‘getting in the way’ of good government, says union chief

  The behaviour of UK PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser is harming departments’ ability to deliver the government’s objectives, FDA general secretary Dave Penman has told Global Government Forum. “What’s been

  • Posted February 21, 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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  FDA union chief slams government’s approach to civil service reform

  The UK civil service reforms being trailed by Tory advisers risk undermining government’s effectiveness while creating “huge destabilisation” at the top of the civil service, the head of the civil

  • Posted January 7, 2020
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  Cummings blog challenged by top Whitehall figures

  Top Whitehall figures – including a former cabinet secretary, a former civil service commissioner and a former head of the civil service, plus the head of the senior civil servants’

  • Posted January 6, 2020
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  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

  • Posted November 26, 2019
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  Impartiality under threat: a warning from former UK Cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell

  Impartiality is a cornerstone of Westminster-style civil services – but in the UK it’s under threat, Lord O’Donnell warned last month. Mia Hunt hears him explain the seven key benefits

  • Posted November 15, 2019
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  Opinion: Labour’s appointment plans say little about civil servants, but much about politicians

  Last week, unnamed Labour sources floated the idea of letting politicians directly appoint departmental leaders. Matt Ross argues that the plan fails to understand either government or management – and

  • Posted November 13, 2019
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  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

  • Posted November 12, 2019
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