On HMRC finding a new chairman. By Simon Sweetman
As you may know – since it has been publicised but not all that well – HMRC is reorganising at the top, and is going to appoint a part time non-executive chairman and then a Chief Executive Officer.
So, I thought, I suppose the chairman will be picked from the usual list of big business types, possibly with a long record of failures and big pay offs, but I think that when this happens I shall apply for it – a long career in tax, one way or the other, and a certain knowledge about how HMRC operates with a special interest in small business, which is supposed to be the focus.
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Missing requirement
Obviously they forgot to mention in the job spec that the applicant should have the time to scour the Sunday newspapers each week ... or perhaps be a dedicated jobseeker ?
working with government
is this an oblique reference to the commonly held view that the last person to hold the role could not contain his contempt for the last, and not at all missed, PGO ?
Oh come on...
You're not advocating that in order to be an equal opportunities employer you have to advertise every vacancy you have in every available printed and online publication, preferably in a range of languages (including braille), are you?
Does your employer (or your company) do that?
Or alternatively, is this a poorly disguised excuse to throw rotten eggs at HMRC for doing something that every single business in the country does in order to rationalise costs, i.e. target its recruitment advertising.
Extremely accurate targeting
Oh come on yourself Andy.
If you are looking for the best, surely only putting one advert and having only 2 weeks for applications is not the best way of doing things?
Oh I forgot. It's HMRC we are dealing with here. The organisation that is famous for being unable to organise a drinking session in a brewery.
Is Simon going to open a book on the "insiders" of the civil service & labour cronies who are going to be the front runners?
Lost in the post
I suspect the advert was posted to the other papers, but somehow got lost?