Follow-up to Assessment from Group IV

Well, I got through the eTray thing, apparantly my people skills are relatively strong compared to my handling of information, which is stronger in turn than my self-development skills. Which is a curious analysis, but there we go :-)

I went down to London for an open day on Thursday, which was very interesting since it was the first time that I really got a good handle on what kinds of things Faststreamers end up doing in the civil service. I’d already tried to find out what I could, but there’s no substitute for talking to the people doing the job. It certainly confirmed what the bumpf says – you can’t really predict what you’d end up doing, but they’re all interesting, challenging roles. Apparantly if they want a faststream person in a position, that position needs to be very well defined and specified before they can make the request, so it tends to be well defined roles that get approved. Which is cool.

Next stop assessment centre. Being govermental, it has its very own acronym FSAC, and it’s the same building where I went for the open day. 7:45 – 18:00 though!

Bring it on.