Services

Webinars

Join Neil Rider’s insightful webinars to gain invaluable insights and expert guidance for navigating the Civil Service landscape and achieving professional excellence.

Civil Service Success Profiles Basic Outline

This short session will provide an outline of all 5 of the Civil Service Success Profiles used in applcation processes for Civil service jobs and graduate entry programmes

Civil Service Strengths - The Basics

This session looks at the element of Success Profiles that applicants can find the most challenging - the 36 'strengths' and how they are assessed at interview

Civil Service Behaviours & How to Present Them

This session looks at the 9 behaviours assessed at the application and interview stage in the Civil Service as the most commonly used element of the Civil Service Success Profiles'

Civil Service Statements

The Civil Service is increasing using the capability statement in place of an application with behaviours examples - this session looks at different types of statement and what the sifter is looking for

Coaching for your Civil Service Interview

This session is an intensive one to one experience with a negotiated price depending on individual requirements

Supporting your applications for civil service roles

This session is offered to very small groups of individuals looking at some of the different processes to apply for roles in the Civil Service

`which Job? General Advice around roles and opportunities in the civil service

This session which can be 1:1 or as a group session will help you consider a more targeted approach to a Civil Service Career

How to sell your experience when applying for a Civil Service job

Most often used with 'behaviour examples' as part of a statement at application, and almost always tested at interview placing your experience in a Civil service context can make the difference to an application - this session considers how to do this to the best effect

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Individual coaching

Neil can offer one to one coaching to those seeking to apply for civil service roles whether they be current civil servants, or new applicants. Neil has extensive experience supporting students applying for graduate entry schemes.

Workshops – Civil Service employers

Neil is happy to provide online or classroom based interactive workshops for staff of civil service departments facing workforce change or seeking to navigate processes for advancement. The focus will be around CS Success Profiles. Where commissioned by an employer Neil will clearly be addressed in the requirements of that employer (for example this may mean only focusing on development opportunities within the commissioning department).

Workshops - Civil Service Trade Unions

As the former head of a trade union function Neil is used to adapting his offer around CS Success Profiles to suit needs around union learning. This may specifically include referencing where a learner may want to challenge particular approaches from an employer. Neil has also provided such workshops for employers to advise and prepare interviewers in order to avoid such challenges and this is something else he is happy to do. Neil has provided workshops focussing on career progression for Civil Service unions (including FDA, POA , Prospect and NAPO) supported by the Welsh Union Learning Fund.

Workshops - Universities

Neil currently leads the Public Sector Mentoring and Development Scheme (PSDMS) for the FDA trade union. This includes providing events and interactions to support student and alumni employability through Civil Service Graduate Entry routes. The PSDMS is funded by the FDA who quite reasonably insist that their drivers (a focus on Modern Universities and showcasing the benefits of trade union membership) take priority. Neil will be happy to work with any commissioning University to their reasonable priorities.