Comments on: Work for the government dot com

By: daral

daral — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:26:21 +0000

work in the government organization is very useful. In this way the job are very secure.

By: KillMurpy

KillMurpy — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:01:10 +0000

I’m in total agreement with the RSS chaps(esses) on here!

So, ok, let’s get the corporate garbage out the way. My official line is, “It’s not a heart stopper to build an RSS feed and a centralised aggregator”, http://www.killmurphy.myzen.co.uk took a hooooge 7 hours to build (I funded it myself to prove a point, and it worked), even though the google API was new to us (we found it at 9.30 am that day btw). Facebook is able to accept feeds (eg any RSS you want to think of) but that doesn’t mean that you need a facebook budget (no offence meant FB!). Any gen 2.0 could hack up an aggregator for this (services available at an inflated hourly rate ). So “Big Tom”, you up for the KM team to come in and do a full scoping, procurement, documentation and implementation of this? We do full data path audits too

KM – “knowledge is a must, innovation is a gift”

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:28:52 +0000

Proof positive – Tom, you’re almost two years behind the Tories. Still – that’s better than your best mate Gordon, eh?

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2006/12/vote_tory_and_b.html

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:46:34 +0000

Mashup is the way!

If we assume there are people who just want to ‘work for government’ there may also be people who specifically want to work for the Home Office or, God help them, Communities and Local Government (it’s great here, honest). And organisations will want to position their ads alongside their recruitment info, competence framework etc. So jobs should be on departmental websites, in a more consistent and reliable way than they are currently.

And they should also be on relevant recruitment sites, wherever the talented people roam. Do we want to recruit people who ‘want to work for government’ or the best people out there? Our approach should be no different than our approach to social media. Take the info to them, not drag them to our websites.

But I agree with the principle of gathering all the govt jobs in one place *as well*, for transparency, convenience – and just plain tidiness.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:04:07 +0000

On the DfT link you provided:

“Sorry, the page you requested was not found”

By: Hu Spam

Hu Spam — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:15:21 +0000

All in one place? No……….MASHUP!

By: Chris Paul

Chris Paul — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:35:36 +0000

PS the Guardian is very good too

By: Chris Paul

Chris Paul — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:33:14 +0000

Don't think anyone's raised the public appointments site(s): http://www.publicappts-vacs.gov.uk/ This is for non-execs and chairs etc etc of NHS Trusts and assorted quangos. The Arts Council has an email list, covering funded and unfunded orgs as well as public bodies. http://www.artsjobs.org.uk Their own jobs are here: Arts Council Jobs And then of course there is this one: W4MP which includes copious opportunities for slavery, family firms uttering worthless adverts, and some real jobs too.

By: John Lilburne

John Lilburne — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:23:26 +0000

Tom,

It’s possible that you now have every government job site listed on this page so it may become the de facto employment portal

By: We Can Show Them A Better Way » the billblog

We Can Show Them A Better Way » the billblog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:13 +0000

[...] Since then there have been a few speeches, some ideas have been floated for general consideration, like the recently announced Treasury review of how Ordnance Survey and other trading funds operate, and thereâ€™s been an interesting investigaion into how crime mapping might operate. [...]