The industry I choose to join upon graduation is the Australian Public Service (APS). The APS is one of the most diverse employers as they employ people from manual labour positions such as gardeners to high level administration and governance positions.
Apprenticeship, indigenous career pathways, school leaver and graduate programs are available across a wide range of public service departments and agencies. They offer full time, part time, casual and temporary jobs across Australia with federal, state and local government. (Australian Public Service, 2016).
Canberra holds the largest collection of civil servants with approximately 50,000 people employed by the APS, one eighth of the total population. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2015). …show more content…
As the working body of the Australian government employees are in hospitals caring for the sick, in courts of law ensuring correct legal procedure. Australia’s public service is amongst the higher end globally with a good efficiency rating, overall lower costing
The Australian Public Service is perhaps the best thought of among the government offices as in the 2010 Australian Election Study surveys by Transparency International, “Among the five political institutions, confidence is highest in the public service, with 56 per cent of the survey respondents saying that they had a ‘great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence.” (Transparency International, 2016),
Australia earns that confidence with a much lower corruption rate than most of the civilised world within the APS when compared to its international counterparts. (McAllister, 2014). Despite being government employees the public service is seen as being separated from the government and especially politicians, this separation means that fallout from major political scandals is minimal and easily …show more content…
Around Canberra lies department headquarters controlling regulatory bodies and dealing with corporate or government bodies both domestic and international. The federal police, defence and security, not to mention the parliament itself. Within Canberra itself their influence is clearly present with nearly 1 in 8 people being employed by the federal government, making government employees a significant section of the population, causing societal change from the combined demands of the
Apprenticeship, indigenous career pathways, school leaver and graduate programs are available across a wide range of public service departments and agencies. They offer full time, part time, casual and temporary jobs across Australia with federal, state and local government. (Australian Public Service, 2016).
Canberra holds the largest collection of civil servants with approximately 50,000 people employed by the APS, one eighth of the total population. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2015). …show more content…
As the working body of the Australian government employees are in hospitals caring for the sick, in courts of law ensuring correct legal procedure. Australia’s public service is amongst the higher end globally with a good efficiency rating, overall lower costing
The Australian Public Service is perhaps the best thought of among the government offices as in the 2010 Australian Election Study surveys by Transparency International, “Among the five political institutions, confidence is highest in the public service, with 56 per cent of the survey respondents saying that they had a ‘great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence.” (Transparency International, 2016),
Australia earns that confidence with a much lower corruption rate than most of the civilised world within the APS when compared to its international counterparts. (McAllister, 2014). Despite being government employees the public service is seen as being separated from the government and especially politicians, this separation means that fallout from major political scandals is minimal and easily …show more content…
Around Canberra lies department headquarters controlling regulatory bodies and dealing with corporate or government bodies both domestic and international. The federal police, defence and security, not to mention the parliament itself. Within Canberra itself their influence is clearly present with nearly 1 in 8 people being employed by the federal government, making government employees a significant section of the population, causing societal change from the combined demands of the