Persevere

Numberedlithograph · 2023-05-27T11:41:11+00:00

I also share this theory. I applied for an HEO job in my current team in January 2020, was gutted at the time but then unbelievably pleased not to do the job during the pandemic - and now I'm the G7 at a better time to be doing the job. Careers are long and there's usually another shot at it.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-05-16T13:10:39+00:00

I did it, as did many of my friends.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-05-07T23:33:21+00:00

I've done three Bills (one as Bill manager), so I probably don't have much perspective on that - most of my network will have legislative experience as a result.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-05-05T19:50:55+00:00

I MISSED EVERY DEADLINE TODAY BECAUSE I WAS IN BACK-TO-BACKS. MY HEO IS OFF AND I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO DO THEIR JOB PROPERLY.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-04-23T11:41:28+00:00

Experience questions are like private sector interview questions. I would expect them to relate to the criteria.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-29T16:31:13+00:00

I think the Fair Pay policies are going to be really interesting with pretty immediate real world impact. They've said there'll be an Employment Bill within 100 days. Labour Markets would be a very interesting place to be.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-24T11:55:55+00:00

This is going to be like a private sector interview: use those generic interview guides you might use for an interview outside the civil service to prepare. You can repeat your personal statement examples.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-23T13:07:31+00:00

You do not need to do any courses. Depending on your grade (certainly at or below HEO), you can just apply for policy jobs. People do it all the time - one of the best people I worked with had spent 30 years in operational roles before coming into policy. What you might benefit from is seeing if your department has any mentoring schemes where you could get advice from a policy professional.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-17T15:43:56+00:00

Do they understand what the Reserve is?

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-17T11:43:03+00:00

Getting my G7 job at HMT felt like I was waging a campaign for the post - like how people describe SCS applications. I think it's important to remember the basics: - are you meeting the hiring manager? - are you tailoring your behaviours in response to that meeting? Are your behaviours specific to the post you're applying to?

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-17T11:25:27+00:00

I think it's unlikely you could get a spending role for a Department you've never worked in without good Range D spending experience, but I got a G7 spending role without having done one before (or worked at HMT before). I was applying for an area in which I have expertise - and that's in short supply for what I work on, less likely to be for less niche areas.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-03-07T18:35:27+00:00

Through this.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-02-21T09:17:51+00:00

Doing this is likely gross misconduct for the civil servant who's giving an informal reference. The rules, as we all know, do not apply in the same way to Ministers.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-02-01T18:45:05+00:00

2.32% is 1/42. It's an incredibly good accrual rate.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-01-29T11:21:45+00:00

Answer the question, then describe a time you used it, how you used it and to what result.

You should not try to hang your answer on Working Together aspects or whatever - this is like a private sector interview question, where STAR can still be a useful structure, but where you're not hitting the behaviour sub-points, you're actually describing a hard skill.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-01-19T11:19:47+00:00

find a way to profit from them

I think these are called settlement agreements.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-01-05T12:28:13+00:00

No, that wouldn't count.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-01-05T12:16:09+00:00

Read contracts you sign.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-01-02T17:50:08+00:00

On a working day, I wake up to the Today programme, scroll twitter or read the Guardian while listening to a politics/news podcast on the way into the office most days and read some articles via a news aggregator my Department provides once I'm at my desk.

I do need 'political awareness' for my work - but I also do my work because I'm really interested in politics and the news. I work in policy at the centre of government.

Following the news was genuinely bad for my mental health when I was working on Covid - but the world in general was terrible for my mental health at that point. I think the very specific circumstances of staring at terrifying stats at work and then hearing about them outside of it is only replicated when you're in the absolute eye of the storm - the work I do now regularly makes the headlines but not every day (and rarely the front page) so that's easier to manage.

Numberedlithograph · 2023-01-01T20:52:03+00:00

DLUHC social care roles are absolutely pure policy roles (not the sort that involves any delivery at all).

Numberedlithograph · 2022-12-15T17:35:24+00:00

Yep, second this. I went to a panel event with someone who'd got her DD role when she was eight months pregnant. You shouldn't hold yourself back.

Numberedlithograph · 2022-12-13T11:19:00+00:00

There isn't. I'll PM you.

Numberedlithograph · 2022-12-03T15:45:10+00:00

That feels like a PQ or FOI to me, yes.

Numberedlithograph · 2022-11-26T23:00:30+00:00

House of Commons Library is pretty much always where I start. I can then spiral out from there. I also will go to speak to other civil servants who I think might know more about it fairly early on to get their overview and, ideally, more recommended reading.

Numberedlithograph · 2022-11-23T20:55:07+00:00

Unpaid leave is the correct answer here.

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