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  • China's civil service job rush

    Imagine the administrative nightmare for HR to sort this lot out. An estimated one million people are expected to take the national entrance exam for civil service jobs in China. However there are only 15,000 positions available. If Guru's maths is correct, that's a 1 in 66 chance of landing a plum low-paid job pushing paper in a faceless government...
    Published 30 Nov 2009 2:59 PM by Guru
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  • Civil Service HR hopefuls denied awards glory

    Remember these guys? The HR Validation Group Monitoring team at the Department of Health were up for the impressively vague 'Improvement Award' at the Civil Service Equality and Diversity Awards. Apparently, they are quite good at getting people to tick more boxes on monitoring forms. Alas, they didn't win. At a (no doubt lavish taxpayer...
  • HR hopefuls in Civil Service diversity awards

    Guru can only wonder what it must be like to work in HR in Whitehall's fabled corridors of power. Yours Truly has never been lucky enough to get a Civil Service gig, if he had then surely he would have heard of this crack team of HR pros? The categories for something called the Civil Service Diversity and Equality Awards include the impressively...