Hi all, I want to fix civil service recruitment. I've been writing about all the ways the process fails good people, and I wanted to ask this community for the ones I haven't seen or haven't thought of.
• The guidance explaining what to write contains more words than you're allowed to write
• Loyalty is rewarded with a smaller pay rise on promotion than the person who just walked in off the street
• Leaving and coming back is often the best financial decision you can make — the system actively rewards it
• A process that is objectively harder than most private sector hiring — to earn a smaller salary
• The feedback if you fail is a number. One to seven. Hours of careful work. One digit.
• Your competence will lose to the incompetent serial applicant who treats every job like a lottery scratchcard — because they've learned to game a process that doesn't care how good you actually are
I've been writing about this and more in more depth on my blog. Never thought I'd be a blogger. Maybe I'll be an influencer next!
Check my profile for a link to the full thing.
What other types of crazy have you experienced in the process?