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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Many public leaders are contemplating a move to the private sector for the first time. How can they ensure they are best-prepared for the challenge?
For anyone working in the public sector, the latest employment figures from the Office of National Statistics make terrifying reading: public sector employment reduced by 67,000 in the third quarter of this year, with private sector employment increasing by only 5,000.
The government’s early claims that the private sector would accommodate those forced out of roles in the public sector look increasingly hollow.
Not only are those making the leap to the private sector competing in an ever-shrinking job pool, but they are also finding themselves fighting a new and surprising battle; the misconceptions that many recruiters have of public sector workers.
A recent report by Hays highlighted that employers and recruitment agencies believe that public sector workers are “institutionalised” and used to an “easy life”, unable to “hack it” in the private sector.
The reality is, of course, very different. Whilst it is true that the public and private sectors are different and want different things from their staff, public sector managers have an incredible base of transferrable skills, with many having overcome huge professional challenges.
But it is an unfortunate truth that these preconceptions are acting as barriers to many public sector workers trying to find employment in the private sector. I talk to many public sector employees who cannot even get past the first stage of screening that many private sector recruiters put in place. One public sector manager was even told by a recruitment consultant that one employer for which they were recruiting had specifically requested that no public sector CVs be put forward.
How can public sector workers overcome this new prejudice and stand a chance in such a competitive market?
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