Civil Servants: Recruitment
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average length of a recruitment competition is from advertisement to recruitment of the winning candidate for a Civil Service job advertised on the (a) public and (b) civil service-only version of Civil Service jobs.
Answered by Georgia Gould
In April 2024, Civil Service departments were commissioned to report on a common definition of Time To Hire. Civil Service Time To Hire measures the duration from the closing date of an advert, to the date a provisional offer is made.
The first Civil Service Time To Hire data, collected between January and March 2024, indicates department’s median averages range between:
17 and 61 calendar days for grades AA to Grade 6, and 28.5 and 70 calendar days for SCS Pay Bands 1 and 2.
These measurements are obtained from recruitment campaigns where an offer was made between January and March 2024.
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