Gizza Job
The Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is in town, starting his tour with a visit to Bombardier who yesterday confirmed that they were letting 300 temporary workers go.
In these credit crunch times there are few enough jobs around, so I thought I'd better let anyone interested know that the Assembly will be recruiting 18 researchers in the next few weeks. I'm told the going rate is around £30,000, which strangely is about £4,000 less than you would get if you were doing a similar job for Belfast City Council.
Recently Stormont hired 30 assistant clerks. About 170 people competed for the posts.
Aside from recruitment, I gather that a number of Stormont staff will soon have to make decisions about whether they stay with the assembly or return to the wider Northern Ireland Civil service. This is all part of the review headed by the former Scottish parliament presiding officer George Reid which recommended back in 2007 that the Assembly should create its own independent Parliamentary Service by 2010. The benefit is that the staff don't have divided allegiances, but the downside for employees is that you are not part of such a big pool when it comes to career development.
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