Public-sector workers 'lack skills for private sector'

lostinrates

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

Agreed but yer average bog-standard CS will find that the skills acquired during the 25 years served in the tax office, MOD or wherever will not translate easily to the private sector and employers can now afford to be VERY choosy. I know several job-threatened LA administrators who are very concerned about a move out of their cosy environment into the perceived cut & thrust of commercial reality.

CS? Civil servant? well in this time of choosy employers, so would your bog standard private sector admin/retail/and many other industry ''bog standards'' be less confident about future employment.

Sir_Humphrey

ILW wrote: »

How much did you charge that industry for this service?

Well, unless you are suggesting that we accept bribes, I am little at a loss about this (strange) question.

I have worked in the private sector and know plenty of others who do too (my brother included). I have to say that what they say does not tally with a lot of the things people here do on about. I wonder if most of their experience of business comes from watching Alan Sugar on TV in their bedsits?

chewmylegoff

bigheadxx wrote: »

The big question that no public sector worker can ever answer is "how much money did you make for your employer last year?"

I work in the public sector, and my team of 8 has generated well in excess of £50m for our employer this year (i.e. from April 2010 to date).

chewmylegoff

Among employers, more than 90 per cent of those surveyed go as far as to say that public-sector experience is "not very important" or "not important at all" when hiring staff. This may come as a shock to the third of workers who believe their public-sector background puts them at an advantage, says Hays.

does this equate to public sector workers being unemployable, or just to people not viewing public sector experience as necessary or any more useful than any other sort of experience for doing the job. it's not really clear - another woolly question interpreted as being empirical evidence. lazy reporting.

ILW

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

Well, unless you are suggesting that we accept bribes, I am little at a loss about this (strange) question.

I have worked in the private sector and know plenty of others who do too (my brother included). I have to say that what they say does not tally with a lot of the things people here do on about. I wonder if most of their experience of business comes from watching Alan Sugar on TV in their bedsits?

Surely if your department has produced this massive saving for a private industry, they will be prepared to pay for the service. If not, why not?

Sir_Humphrey

ILW wrote: »

Surely if your department has produced this massive saving for a private industry, they will be prepared to pay for the service. If not, why not?

Because the public sector formulating a policy for a private sector interest in return for payment is called CORRUPTION. The reason we did it was because it was in the public interest.

Jeez. :eek:

Our US counterparts operate a permit system which operates on a permit payment system. The Congressional Inquiry report made very interesting reading. However, that is within the operational side of regulation rather than the policy formulation.

robin_banks

carolt wrote: »

I have worked woth some astonishing incompetents in the private sector - hasn't everyone?

This kind of kneee-jerk public sector = BAD, private sector = GOOD is just laughable.

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I used to work for a big 5 Accoutancy firm that isn't one of the big 4 anymore.

Not the best level of competance I've come across.

StevieJ

carolt wrote: »

I have worked woth some astonishing incompetents in the private sector - hasn't everyone?

This kind of kneee-jerk public sector = BAD, private sector = GOOD is just laughable.

As an example those SAS soldiers are very much in demand in the private security business and look how those govt ministers always seem to end up on some company board or other.

ILW

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

Because the public sector formulating a policy for a private sector interest in return for payment is called CORRUPTION. The reason we did it was because it was in the public interest.

Jeez. :eek:

Our US counterparts operate a permit system which operates on a permit payment system. The Congressional Inquiry report made very interesting reading. However, that is within the operational side of regulation rather than the policy formulation.

So you use public sector money to increase profits for a private sector firm? Is that fair on their competition?

StevieJ

One thing confuses me here, you lot spend so much time telling us how pay and conditions are so much better in the public sector, if that was so surely they will have attracted the creme of the talent