The £93bn handshake

Generali

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Isn't networking the way the world has always worked?

IIRC, Samuel Pepys Uncle bought Mr Pepys the job of Head of Naval Procurement.

I like to think that governance has moved on somewhat in the UK since then.

antrobus

Generali wrote: »

IIRC, Samuel Pepys Uncle bought Mr Pepys the job of Head of Naval Procurement.....

“There was a case in our offices (Board of Audit) in which a gentleman was appointed who really could neither read nor write, he was almost an idiot, and there was the greatest possible difficulty in getting him out of the office.”
Parliamentary Report on the Civil Service, 1860

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/a-partial-history-of-the-civil-service/the-starting-point-before-northcote-trevelyan

Generali wrote: »

...I like to think that governance has moved on somewhat in the UK since then.

We made prospective civil servants sit exams.