London Jobs
Tuesday
Image by indigo_jones via Flickr7.5m people live in London and need public services, that means lots of Public Sector Jobs. Public Sector Jobs in the UK as a proportion of total employment was 20.4 per cent in June 2005. In 2009 that represented 6.09 million jobs. - Office of the National Statistics. So if you are job hunting maybe you are missing out on 1/5 of your job options if you are not looking in the Public Sector In London for jobs.
However many people have been frustrated when they try to fill in the 14 page application form for a Public Sector job in for example: Housing, Fire Service, NHS, or Education. Do you spend hours filling in the form, and then it goes into a black hole and you hear nothing. Have you been totally lost not knowing why you didn't get an interview for that job you so much wanted in the Public Sector. Well I am going to try to open the curtains and let you get an insight into the whole Public Sector recruitment process. If you are applying for jobs in London just think about it there are 34 Local Authorities in London including Greater London Authority. That's 100's of London Jobs.
For most jobs in the Public Sector you apply for, the organization will provide you with a job description and a personal specification. So how do they differ: