Nov 06
A tough search for talent - Public Service recruitment
I’m always half a week late on my Economist stories (the latest issue arrived late, compounding my tardiness) but this story popped out to me.
In simple numerical terms, the personnel gap opening up is vast. A report by the OECD, a rich-countries’ club, found that in 13 of the member countries surveyed, at least 30% of central-government workers were 50 years of age or older. Generous early-retirement provisions mean that many will leave their posts fairly soon.
Funny note: the story refers to public employees as mandarins. I had to look it up:
the ultimate origin of the word is the Sanskrit root man-, meaning “to think.”
