Great News: End To The Civil Service Recruitment Freeze!

Truegho

Just read this headline on the CV Library Blog:

Governments to take back recruitment power for public sector roles

So can we all take this as good news in that it means an end to the Civil Service recruitment freeze?

notanewuser

Truegho wrote: »

Just read this headline on the CV Library Blog:

Governments to take back recruitment power for public sector roles

So can we all take this as good news in that it means an end to the Civil Service recruitment freeze?

Doesn't it just mean they won't be using external agencies to handle their recruitment?

Truegho

notanewuser wrote: »

Doesn't it just mean they won't be using external agencies to handle their recruitment?

Is that how you interpret it? I took it to mean that local Civil Service recruitment departments will no longer have ask the permission of an MP before they can take staff on. Isn't that a good thing for job seekers?

notanewuser

You're a writer. Do you ever just read the title and assume you know what a story is about?

Presumably there's more detail in the blog.......... if you post it we can see what it says.

notanewuser

"Restrictions on public sector recruitment will soon be over, with next year seeing a reversal on the freeze which has seen Government departments forbidden from making hires unless sanctioned by a minister. In 2015, departments will be able to take back the power in this area and make hiring decisions within specific budgets."


So no Ministerial approval needed in future. Whether their stripped-to-the-bone budgets will actually allow them to hire any staff remains to be seen!

Cyberman60

Sounds like there's an election coming up and the Coalition need a few extra votes. Expect it to be reversed soon after the Election !! :rotfl:

badskindollheart

It doesn't mean any more jobs than there are currently. Every vacancy goes through a four stage recruitment process:

Stage 1 - level transfers or promotions within the recruiting dept
Stage 2 - surplus
Stage 3 - open competition within the civil service
Stage 4 - external recruitment (outside civil service)

it just means it's easier and quicker for the departments to get to Stage 4 (external recruitment). If we exhaust stage 1-3 and have no successful candidate, it goes to the permanent secretary for that dept to sign off external recruitment. This just takes that additional tier of bureaucracy away.

In reality, only the lowest grades or very specialist posts will get to Stage 4.

tgon

Badskindollheart Has got it spot on. Permanent Secretary's still got to keep costs painfully low as long as the national deficit is still heavy.

TELLIT01

Any form of large scale recruitment seems highly unlikely. With unemployment numbers falling there is likely to be a surplus of JobCentre staff and they would be recycled first. The expansion of UC also theoretically means fewer staff required because most of the claim process will be done on-line.

ohreally

tgon wrote: »

Permanent Secretary's still got to keep costs painfully low as long as the national deficit is still heavy.

And on that note

Osborne borrowed 10 per cent more in the five months to September than in the same period in 2013.

And government debt rose to £1.451 trillion — 79.9 per cent of GDP compared to 77.9 per cent a year earlier.

The official figures blew a hole in the Chancellor’s glowing report to his party conference last month, where he declared that “Britain is the fastest growing, most job-creating, most deficit-reducing of any major advanced economy on Earth.”

“Only a wages-led recovery can bring about the boost in demand that businesses need and the boost in revenue that the government needs,” she said.

Even City analysts endorsed the trade union position that Mr Osborne’s austerity policy has hit the buffers.

Chartered accountants body ICAEW spokesman Sumita Shah said the “grim” figures told a “different story” to Tory claims of recovery based on headline growth figures.

And economist Howard Archer confirmed that higher borrowing figures “largely reflect the fact that much weaker than expected earnings growth has limited income tax receipts, along with a large number of people now being in low-paid jobs or self-employed.”

sammyjammy

keitht53 wrote: »

Any form of large scale recruitment seems highly unlikely. With unemployment numbers falling there is likely to be a surplus of JobCentre staff and they would be recycled first. The expansion of UC also theoretically means fewer staff required because most of the claim process will be done on-line.

I think thats a very simplistic view, with conditionality a very real thing for existing tax credit claimants the staff situation could remain the same. There is also an existing large scale recruitment taking place to staff UC Service Centres across the country.