WHERE WILL YOUR IDEAS END UP?

1. WHEREWILL YOUR IDEAS END UP? • Oliver A. Ferrari • Home Office • 12/03/09 • Warwick University

2. WHY A CAREER IN THE CIVIL SERVICE • Challenging work that often makes a difference to people’s lives • Experience a great variety of work • Very early responsibility • Excellent training and development • Work/life balance

3. AFFECT LIVESWORK WITH GOVERNMENT • The Fast Stream - a demanding graduate entry point into the Civil Service, part of our succession planning • Accelerated training and development • An opportunity to work directly with members of the public and government ministers • Could you make a difference to national life, turn policy into reality?

4. GRADUATE FASTSTREAMwww.faststream.gov.uk FIVE OPTIONS • Central Departments • Science & Engineering • Diplomatic Service • Houses of Parliament

5. OTHER FAST STREAM PROGRAMMES • Economists • Statisticians • Technology in Business

6. SEVEN JOBS IN ONE • The Consultant • The Speech Writer • The Investigator • The Hub • The Project Manager • The Expert • The Nomad

7. WHAT MAKES A FAST STREAMER? • The ability to challenge and get things done • Decisiveness • Lucidity • Robustness • A collaborative attitude • An inquisitive, analytical mind • Adaptability • Impartiality

8. + PRIDE PACE PASSION PROFESSIONALISM

9. TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT • A personal training programme • One-day induction course to introduce you to the Civil Service and the role and responsibilities of a Fast Streamer • Mentoring and pairing • On-the-job training • Self study • National School of Government

10. BENEFITS • Starting salary from around £25000 - £27000 • Choice of pension • 25 days holiday, plus 10.5 public holidays • Flexible working widely available • Opportunities to work in the regions/internationally

11. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS • A 2:2 degree in any discipline • Most Fast Stream posts open to EAA and Commonwealth citizens • UK nationals only in FCO and small number of other posts

12. HOW THE SCHEME WORKS • September and November annually • includes online verbal and numeric self-assessment with feedback provided • Online cognitive and non-cognitive tests • Invigilated ½ day e-Tray exercise • One-day Assessment Centre

13. ASSESSMENT CENTRE If you are successful in the on-line tests you’ll be invited to our assessment centre in London for a day: • Group exercise • Briefing exercise • Policy Recommendation exercise • Interview It will be a stimulating experience and feedback is provided!

14. WHAT IS BEING ASSESSED Our assessment process is wholly competency based and tests: • Drive for results • Learning and Improving • Decision-making • Constructive thinking • Building productive relationships • Communicating with impact

15. BUILDING A PROFESSIONAL CIVIL SERVICE Your career will be developed within three broad professional areas: • Corporate Services • Operational Delivery • Policy Delivery

16. Corporate servicesdelivery – provides key services to departments that are fundamental to the successful conduct of their business, such as human resources, finance, IT and communications.  • Operational delivery – focuses on the provision of top quality services direct to the public, ensuring excellence in projects and processes, and has significant management responsibilities.  • Policydelivery – research, analysis and the development of government policy.

17. PROMOTION ON MERIT Whilst on the Fast Stream you are looking to develop skills in: • Analysis and use of evidence • Financial management • People management • Programme and project management

18. OPEN TO ALL • Fast Streamers are recruited and promoted solely on ability and performance. • Regardless of gender, ethnic origin, disability, sexuality, age or marital status, if you have what it takes to join the Fast Stream, we look forward to your application. • We want the Civil Service to represent the society it serves.

19. www.faststream.gov.uk • Please visit our web site - we hope it will interest you • There are profiles of current Fast Streamers to read that will give you a flavour of the work we do • Remember, application is online - and it’s not a good idea to go to the wire on the closing date!

20. MAIN STREAM RECRUITMENT • There is a vast range of other career opportunities within the Civil Service in addition to the Fast Stream • Several departments and agencies run their own graduate recruitment schemes, see www.civilservice.gov.uk for more information.

21. What sort of work? You could find yourself working • in a team responsible for millions of pounds of public spending • on something that has never been attempted before like creating a revolutionary computer system • on a project that could be crucial to saving lives like planning for a major disaster • providing a service directly helping the most vulnerable people in society.

22. MAIN STREAM RECRUITMENT Other graduate recruitment schemes: • Government Actuary’s Department • Government Economic Service • Government Communication Centre • Government Legal Service • Government Operational Research Service • Government Social Research • Government Statistical Service • HM Revenue & Customs

23. www.civilservice.gov.uk • Information on other graduate schemes are available on the web at this address • There's opportunity to apply to join the Fast Stream as an internal applicant via the In-Service Nomination Scheme; applicants are judged on their on-the-job ability in lieu of the qualifying tests

24. INTERESTED IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING? • Central Science Laboratory • Fisheries Research Services • Forensic Science Service • HM Government Communication Centre • Maritime and Coastguard Agency • Medical Devices Agency • Medical Research Council • Medicine Control Agency • MOD • National Weights and Measures • Pesticides Safety Directorate • Scottish Agricultural Science Agency • Veterinary Laboratories Agency • Veterinary Medicines Directorate

25. www.civilservice.gov.uk • Individual government departments and agencies recruit independently as and when vacancies arise • All Civil Service vacancies will appear on the Civil Service website and in the national, local and regional press and in specialist and professional journals • Vacancies are listed at this web address and there is a job notification service

26. “TRY BEFORE YOU BUY”! Visit our website for details of • Sandwich placements • Work experience • contact HR offices in government departments or visit www.civilservice.gov.uk Opportunities dependent on business need.

27. Where will your ideas end up? ANY QUESTIONS?