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Blair McPherson
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16 Sep 2017 - 17:42

null The bigger the job the fewer the requirements

  Adverts for top jobs in the public sector stipulate very few requirements. Unlike the long list of essential requirements (skills,knowledge and experience) you find in average recruitment pack for a middle management post. Typically a senior manager is required to demonstrate experience of  working in a complex organisation managing a large budget and large staff group ... See more
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Blair McPherson
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05 Sep 2017 - 21:53

null The more senior the post the fewer the requirements 

  Adverts for top jobs in the public sector stipulate very few requirements. Unlike the long list of essential requirements (skills,knowledge and experience) you find in average recruitment pack for a middle management post. Typically a senior manager is required to demonstrate experience of  working in a complex organisation managing a large budget and large staff group ... See more
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Blair McPherson
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24 Jul 2017 - 13:39

null The waiting

After the interview comes the waiting. It's the worst part of applying for jobs. I hate it when they say , "we will let you know after the weekend". You spend all weekend going over the interview, did you say the right things, did you come over as someone they could work with, should you have given fuller answers, did you waffle?  It's so hard to read the body language... See more
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Blair McPherson
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24 Jan 2017 - 12:47

null Let's do a deal

    Donald Trump the new US president with a business background has appointed people to his senior posts on the bases that they are good at "doing deals". Is this a new and worrying tend in the public sector  which we are likely to follow? A worrying tend because doing deals in the commercial world is a rather murky business where ethical and moral considerations are... See more
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Blair McPherson
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27 Dec 2016 - 20:02

null you're very experienced with an impressive track record but will we get on?

  Traditional recruitment practices, panel interview, presentation and trial by sherry, take a short list of suitably qualified candidates and ask members to chose the one they like best not necessarily the one most compatible with their boss. I know attempts has been made to convince members that psycho metric tests can identify and match personality traits but I have never yet... See more
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Blair McPherson
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22 Feb 2016 - 19:53

null A faint air of menace

  We need to talk about how we talk about diversity in the work place because the subject still has a faint air of menace about it. If people are reluctant to talk about diversity for fear of saying the wrong thing then organisations will have a tick box approach to diversity which looks impressive but doesn't  change the culture. This all to common superficial approach to diversity... See more
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Blair McPherson
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30 Dec 2014 - 14:40

null The Silver Slipper Specification

Cinderella had very small feet. This fact is rarely mentioned in the telling of the story but it is the only logical explanation. If her feet were average size then the glass slippers would have fitted most young women who tied them on. Of course it could be that Prince Charming knew all along who his attractive and mysterious dance partner was. The "who so ever these slippers fit I shall... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:19

null Less support for managers

The back ground grumbling has turned into out spoken criticism about the reduced support to managers. A slight of hand by which it is claimed savings have been made without cutting front-line services. But is this the best use of management time and will it lead to overwhelmed managers neglecting the important stuff? http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=22655   See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:19

null They want me to apply for my own job

The Civil Service are doing it, Local Authorities have done it and the NHS will be doing it. Public sector organisations are cutting the size of the workforce by reducing the head count at each tire.  The new structure is announced and your job has disappeared, been given a grand sounding new title and additional responsibilities or been combined with another post either way there are... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 12:56

null The best person or the right person for the job?

The City and Big business reject the idea of quotas as a way of ensuring board rooms are more representative they claim it’s about appointing the best person for the job. So why it is the best person is so often a man? Could it be that what they really mean is that they seek to appoint the right person, the one that will fit in, the one we feel most comfortable with, someone we could work... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 13:04

null Do extraverts perform better at interview or do they just think they do?

  It has long been recognised that in western society there is a cultural bias towards extraverts especially in the work place. A new bestselling book by the American author Susan Cain has given the debate a new twist in light of the banking crises. She claims that extraverts are more prone to risk taking in business and that businesses have become increasingly dominated by extraverts,... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:27

null Few racists but a lot of racism

   I have come across very few racists in Local Government but both at work and socially I have heard racist comments and inappropriate “jokes”. I explain this by the fact that people with limited contact with others from different cultures can be insensitive and ill informed getting most of their knowledge from the negative stereotypes to be found in the media If people are not... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:41

null Public sector closet racists

  In the public sector racists aren’t skin heads who shout vile abuse and threaten violence. They are middle aged men and women in suits who are charming and intelligent but who have no intension of ever appointing a black person to a management post. I worked in the most PC section of local government, social services, I suspect we had our share of closet racists but they were... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 12:57

null A provocative appiontment

  Naming a civilian as the Governments preferred candidate for the post of Chief Inspector is provocative. After all he has already had the police marching through the streets of London in protest at his proposed sweeping changes to pay and conditions. This government seems to favour a confrontational leadership style. The recently appointed head of Ofsted has antagonised head teachers... See more
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