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Talent scouting

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 12 July 2013 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

Today we published another important update to the Government Service Design Manual to help departments recruit and retain staff with new digital skills. This is one of the services the new GDS Recruitment Hub is offering departments. Increasingly we need to …

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Talking heads

Posted by: Matt Sheret, Posted on: 24 April 2013 - Categories: Digital engagement, Transformation

One of the updates we’ve made to the Government Service Design Manual is to add video case studies. Video has been one of the best methods we’ve found for quickly and candidly sharing what it’s like to work on a …

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Writing guidance for the service design manual

Posted by: Gareth Rushgrove, Posted on: 19 April 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team

The Government Digital Service started out as a small group of people with experience building and running large online services. Since then we’ve grown the team, added lots of smart people, and talked to even more experts from other organisations. …

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Setting the standard

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 11 April 2013 - Categories: GDS team

Last month was a really important one for the Digital by Default Service Standard. We launched our beta for one thing. Just as importantly, the Digital Leaders network - the people responsible for driving the digital agenda across government - …

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