How to be a Civil Servant: Whitehall Explained

by Martin Stanley

Over 20,000 students and graduates apply to enter the UK civil service every year through its fast stream competition alone. Martin Stanley's seminal How to Be a Civil Servant was the first guidebook to working in the higher levels of the civil service ever published.

It remains the only comprehensive guide on how civil servants should effectively carry out their duties, hone their communication skills and respond to professional, ethical and technical issues relevant to the job.

It addresses such questions as•How do you establish yourself with your minister as a trusted adviser?•How should you feed the media so they don’t feed on you?•What’s the best way to deal with potential conflicts of interest?

This fully updated new edition provides up to date advice, and is a must-read for newly appointed Whitehall civil servants and for those looking to enter the profession – not to mention students, academics, journalists, politicians and anyone with an interest in the inner workings of the British government.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 16, 2021

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[Ryan Barry · Rating 3 out of 5]

As someone who is about to start working within the civil service, I found the book to be a great insight into how Civil Servants work within Whitehall, the civil service code of conduct, and about how to work with policys and ministers. A good read.