r/TheCivilService

Good afternoon. Advice required, I think? My manager keeps putting my work in copilot to “professionalise and humanise” it. Now, if there was a problem with my work - fine. But he recently read a response I’d written to a nonsensical complaint about me and he said “wow, this reads so well. Have you put this into copilot?” And I said no, obviously not. He then proceeded to paste it into copilot and ask it to do something to it, then told me to read it and see if I thought it read any better or not. It didn’t, and I told him to stop putting my work into copilot. He replied “well I wish I could write things like this as well as you have, then I wouldn’t need to use copilot so much”. He puts everything I show him into copilot now, because he thinks it reads better.

It’s since come to our attention that he’s using it for EVERYTHING. Posters in the office, emails, performance reviews - if he needs to write an email he goes on copilot and types “draft an email saying x y z”. Can we actually do anything about this? It’s insulting and he’s being very lazy using it for everything.

It says that qualification level required for the job is a high school graduate, what does that mean?? secondary or college/6th form??

The window for selling up to five days annual leave (at HMRC) opens 13-31 October. Worth remembering for those wanting the additional money in time for Christmas. It will be paid in the November salary.

Part timers can claim up to the equivalent pro rata amount.

I work at HMCTS and am wondering where I can find internal vacancies specifically for MOJ employees.

I have changed my status to civil servant on Civil Service Jobs, however, is there any other way to find jobs listed only for MOJ employees?

Hi all,

Following the news that a certain outsourced company is getting moved over to DWP in the coming months, is there another example of how long the TUPE period lasts before DWP T&C's is offered? A friend of mine is moving from said outsourced company and has been increasingly frustrated with progression opportunities within said outsourced company, if you get offered DWP T&Cs how long before you can attempt to progress or pivot into a different field? She is a junior level dev ops engineer by trade and is too shy to post in here, any insight is appreciated. TIA

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I’m a recent graduate who’s going in to his first “proper” job in a graduate scheme within the civil service. What are things I should be doing my first week?

I already know I’ll be doing lots of training etc, but should I be arranging calls with people in my team to get to know them? If so, what should I be asking them? Should I be attending seminars that they offer me also? And if there’s other things you think would be useful for me to do or that I should be doing then please let me know.

Thank you.

I’ve been offered a job through Brook Street at AO level; I don’t wanna doxx myself and give away any details, but I’ve been out of serious employment (stuck in hospo) since finishing my Masters. This’ll be my first experience working in an office, and even though it’s temporary I’m really excited, because the work is in a field very much related to my degree.

What pathways do I have to progress to further employment with the CS, and how can I best leverage my new job? Further to that, is there any advice you’d offer to someone in my position?

I finally got an update about a Fraud Investigator Apprenticeship I interviewed for aaages ago with the DWP. Got a provisional offer and now I just have to complete my pre-employment checks. I could cry, I'm so happy 🥹

Apparently they were having delays with their review process, so it took way longer than expected. I genuinely wasn't expecting to hear back at this point, let alone to get a positive result. I was worried I had done terribly in the interview stage because they were so quiet, and just taking notes the entire time (I get that's what they do, but it was just so different to what I'm used to with interviews lol). My adrenaline has been through the roof for the last hour or so.

I'm currently doing my references and work history from the last three years. I decided to check my HMRC to make sure my employment dates were correct, when I noticed that one of my previous jobs hasn't shown up on my tax records for some reason. Kinda suspicious because my boss at the time said my paychecks looked so low because of tax deductions, but I never did manage to get a payslip document out of that guy. In hindsight I should've checked HMRC at the time, but tbh I just had bigger problems on my plate than a slightly lower-than-expected paycheck. My recent jobs haven't required references either, so I've had even less reason to check until now.

I'm genuinely worried my ex-boss committed tax fraud (which does kinda make me chuckle given the job I'm currently trying to get). I was gonna get a reference from that guy too, and now I'm just feeling super anxious. Is this gonna negatively impact my pre-employment checks?

My two other references should be sound, but I'm considering using my current temp job as one instead. Would that be better? Are temp jobs even okay to use for references? Genuine questions; apologies if they seem silly.