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The Civil Service is an equal opportunities employer that positively promotes all forms of flexible working, including job sharing.
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To help you during the recruitment process, we will take into account any adjustments that could help you. Read more about reasonable adjustments here.
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Your CV

Your CV allows you to summarise your education, work history, skills and experience which relate to the job you are applying for. Your skills and experience will be scored against the essential criteria in the job advert, so make sure your information is relevant. 

Your work history can include:

  • paid work
  • volunteering work
  • work experience through school or college.

You can also mention experience you have from school, college, hobbies and clubs you’ve been involved in.  For example, if you helped organise a school trip or arranged a charity event you can highlight the skills you used.

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We may ask you to provide your CV in an anonymised format. This will remove information that could identify you, such as your name, age or gender. 

You may also be asked to only include educational qualifications which are relevant to the role you are applying. For example, professional qualifications. This is to make sure that: 

  • the process is fair
  • irrelevant information is not taken into account during the selection process

How we recruit

We assess a combination of behaviours, strengths, experience, ability and technical skills. Find out more about how this helps us to find the right person for each role.
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How to write your personal statement

For some jobs you’ll be asked to provide a personal statement or statement of suitability. Find out how to stand out.

How to write your personal statement

Demonstrating behaviours

Behaviours are the things that people do that result in effective performance. Read more about the behaviours we use to assess you.

Civil Service Behaviours

Assessments and interviews

Read about the different kinds of assessments you might be asked to do, after you’ve submitted an application form.

Assessments and Interviews

Civil Service Success Profiles

The Civil Service recruits using Success Profiles. This means that for every role, we consider what you’ll need to demonstrate to be successful. 

Read more about Success Profiles
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