‘Unprecedented surge’ in civil service job searches online

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Hundreds of thousands of people have been using the internet to find jobs in the civil service against a backdrop of rising unemployment and cuts to the public sector, analysts have said.

According to Hydra, a provider of software-as-a-service (Saas), searches for the term ‘civil service jobs’ saw an 80 per cent surge from December 2011 to February 2012, dominating job –specific online searches.

This was said to represent an “unprecedented surge” in searches for the term, which was used 246,000 times in January alone.

The finding came as thousands of public sector workers are losing their jobs and at a time when unemployment as a whole has been on the rise.

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Pamela Flores is an events professional with experience at Symposium Events, a UK-based conference and events organization. She has worked in editorial and event coordination roles within the HR and expatriate management sector, contributing to the organization of major conferences including the Expatriate Management and Global Mobility conference. Her background spans online editorial work and events management within the professional conference industry.

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