Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Jobs I failed to get

    Jobs I failed to get

    I enjoyed the recent posts from Terence and Sam about their experiences not getting jobs and never one to miss out on a blogging trend here is mine. Early Online Publication – 1997ish I had to do a writing test as part of the interview process – nothing too fancy. The interesting thing was to…

  • 2020: The year I forgot how to read

    2020: The year I forgot how to read

    We all know 2020 has been terrible and weird and unsettling…and don’t forget ‘unprecedented’. One of the things I know I’m not alone in was the effect those early days of COVID concern had on my ability to read for pleasure – and here we are staring down the barrel of October (and the foretold…

  • Painting thru a pandemic

    I love graffiti. I have done since I was 11 years old. I’ve destroyed more notebooks than I can count tagging and doodling designs, travelled the world taking photos of walls and spent a small fortune on art for my flat. All that said it had been more than 25 years (give or take the…

  • Testing my top 10 tips against the Government Chief Digital Officer job description

    Yesterday I published the top 10 tips that came out of my research into job ads and descriptions for DDaT roles in public service. Then the new Government Chief Digital Officer role was published so I thought I would test my ideas against this high profile role! Now for the record I’m not having a…

  • Top 10 tips for more successful job ads / descriptions

    ..based on my survey of 257 people, a handful of follow up conversations and a number of years curating my jobs newsletter. In no particular order these are 10 things that I think could improve 90% of jobs advertised in the Digital, Data and Technology space in public service (but based on less experience probably…