No ordinary careers: why I joined the Civil Service

...post to work in the Debt Management Department in HMRC. There are many ways to get into the Civil Service from direct entry into a Civil Service job to applying...
...post to work in the Debt Management Department in HMRC. There are many ways to get into the Civil Service from direct entry into a Civil Service job to applying...
...to have the courage to put myself in scary situations, to see how I cope. For example, next month I am going to facilitate at an event for the Top...
...the week involved workshops, including with the Territorial Offices. There were also useful tours, including to the House of Commons and No. 10, and these just topped off a well-constructed...
...how to co-design solutions to complex policy problems by working with other departments and actively involving the citizens we serve as well as how we apply system thinking and use...
...a new digital service. In alpha, we wanted to find out how learning could be more personalised, relevant and informal. My colleague, Neha Datt, wrote the blog Learning to be...
...From this, we were able to put new adjustments into place really easily. My new adjustments included: a quiet room; a ‘Roger Pen’ microphone for meetings; communication support, such as...
...hit stop on the stopwatch until the race is over. Run for your life and never give up. If you want to get into sports, join the CSSC and get...
...inclusion instinctive, and then tell people that’s how they must be. It reminds me of being told on family holidays in the 1960s, with us four siblings packed into the...
To mark Father’s Day (21 June), this is the second of two blogs giving an insight into the lives of civil servant fathers and their experiences of working at home...
...Skype before a meeting starts. A few weeks into our new working-from-home approach, I started a wellbeing chat with my team to talk about how we are feeling, what we're...