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Recruitment and Skills
A fresh look at recruitment
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Aytan Hilton, Posted on:
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Digital data and technology, People and Skills, Recruitment and Skills
As transformation in government continues, recruitment changes with it.
It's all about the people
Ask someone what they think working in government might be like, and you’ll sometimes get answers like this: it will be out of date, detached from reality, officious, cumbersome. Those are Yes, Minister-era stereotypes that simply don't apply anymore. Government …
Digital and Technology Fast Stream: Changing posts from HOT to MOD
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Iain Gordon, Posted on:
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Digital & Technology Faststream, Graduate schemes and Fast Stream, Recruitment and Skills
Continuing in the series of blog posts by current Digital and Technology Fast Streamers, Iain Gordon writes about his first placement at the Home Office and his next move. I’m a first-year Digital and Technology Fast Streamer (DATs, as we’re commonly known). …
Using the Digital and Technology Skills Matrix: Example 1
The DVLA are no strangers to digital transformation. They're responsible for 3 of the government's digital exemplars. This means they have been making dramatic changes to how their customers transact. And they've adopted agile project methods to make changes to …
The employee value proposition, employer branding and ambassadors
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ZeShaan Shamsi, Posted on:
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Recruitment, Recruitment and Skills, Recruitment Hub
When we advertise a vacancy we’re asking a candidate to join and contribute their knowledge, skills, talents, behaviours, time, and energy to our organisation.
Building digital talent
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Tom Bryant, Posted on:
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Recruitment and Skills, Skills and Learning, Training and progression, Uncategorized
HR and Transformation teams can use the Digital and Technology skills guide to establish skill requirements and role profiles when shaping their teams.
The elements of a successful recruitment strategy
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ZeShaan Shamsi, Posted on:
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Recruitment, Recruitment and Skills, Recruitment Hub, Working at GDS
I posted recently about the basics of the recruitment process, I wanted to follow that up with a brief look at how you build a recruitment strategy.
A personal perspective: The Digital and Technology (DaT) Fast Stream programme
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David Richardson, Posted on:
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Digital & Technology Faststream, Graduate schemes and Fast Stream, Recruitment and Skills
David Richardson joined the Civil Service in 2013 as a Digital and Technology (DaT) Fast Streamer (previously the Technology in Business Fast Stream).
Introducing the GDS digital and technology skills matrix
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Tom Bryant, Posted on:
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Capabilities, Recruitment and Skills, Training and progression
Disruptive technologies, like cloud computing, big data and open source software, demand new technology skill sets.