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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not the same person but about 4 years to reach MX11, 2-3 more years to reach MX10. Then super scale by 40. Quite attainable in policy role

Hi there!

Thanks for sharing your experience

May I know if you are in one of the central planning Ministries too?

Are your hrs relatively long as mentioned by the original respondent?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi there!

Thanks for sharing your experience

May I know if you are in one of the central planning Ministries too?

Are your hrs relatively long as mentioned by the original respondent?

Oh to add on,

Are u on superscale right now?

Oh, by the way, I hope no one gets the idea that you're on easy street once you're in a policy department. Some policy departments can be real meat grinders, and politicking can be intense due to the congregation of high CEPers and competition will thus be intense.

What you need is to be well-presented, well-spoken, confident, able to run presentations and talks, and also be able to write good English (in the policymaking sort of language). What passes for mediocre in other departments would likely rank as unacceptable here.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Oh to add on,

Are u on superscale right now?

Nay. Didn't last. Got MX10 a few years back. Had kid. Went elsewhere. Better benefits. Hours aren't as crazy. Going home regularly at 7 pm nowadays. Used to work through consecutive nights with little sleep during peak periods. But peak periods were more the norm than exception.

So, I agree with what the other person said. It wasn't easy as I had seemingly made it out to be. But it was very manageable when I had no kids.

Oh yes. More important than being able to write concisely, it is being able to think critically. Most staffer I came across writes beautiful but lacks substance. Distilling the substance, that's the hardest bit, IMHO.

Hope I helped. Don't want to lull you into thinking that its plain-sailing nor want to discourage you from policy work. It's really fun and it takes a certain kind of personality. Go give it a shot. I presumed you are still young. If so, you are probably in your best years to experiment. You never know. Keep trying. Don't settle

Morning!

Hope u didn't stay up because of work =p

Yup, thanks for clarifying further. Will take note

Have a smooth sailing year ahead!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Nay. Didn't last. Got MX10 a few years back. Had kid. Went elsewhere. Better benefits. Hours aren't as crazy. Going home regularly at 7 pm nowadays. Used to work through consecutive nights with little sleep during peak periods. But peak periods were more the norm than exception.

So, I agree with what the other person said. It wasn't easy as I had seemingly made it out to be. But it was very manageable when I had no kids.

Oh yes. More important than being able to write concisely, it is being able to think critically. Most staffer I came across writes beautiful but lacks substance. Distilling the substance, that's the hardest bit, IMHO.

Hope I helped. Don't want to lull you into thinking that its plain-sailing nor want to discourage you from policy work. It's really fun and it takes a certain kind of personality. Go give it a shot. I presumed you are still young. If so, you are probably in your best years to experiment. You never know. Keep trying. Don't settle

Morning!

Hope u didn't stay up because of work =p

Yup, thanks for clarifying further. Will take note

Have a smooth sailing year ahead!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Oh, by the way, I hope no one gets the idea that you're on easy street once you're in a policy department. Some policy departments can be real meat grinders, and politicking can be intense due to the congregation of high CEPers and competition will thus be intense.

What you need is to be well-presented, well-spoken, confident, able to run presentations and talks, and also be able to write good English (in the policymaking sort of language). What passes for mediocre in other departments would likely rank as unacceptable here.

Morning!

Yup, thanks for clarifying further. Will take note

Have a smooth sailing year ahead!

Hi,

Based on your experience, I am currently in the ops/audit function of a stat board and am looking for further progression. Would you recommend trying out for a policy post? I am 29 currently so not sure if I am too old already.

I have recently applied for posting internally to a dept that does higher level audit work but I am afraid my progression will be limited if I stay there and get too old to switch to policy.

Hi! Sorry to jump on here, would also like some advice.

i just finished my 1st year in policy work and would like to transfer to one of the stat boards. Reason being its more operational, I feel that its more of what I'm looking for. Is the transferability from min to sb (msf to ncss, mti to spring/ie) easy? do sbs usually not take min policy staff as the work they do is more specialised?

Thanks

hi all,
advice is greatly appreciated.
i am a fresh masters degree grad, 3 years of working experience, no NS.
being offered 3.6 and mx12. is this reasonable? because i thought it is kinda low?

thanks!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

hi all,
advice is greatly appreciated.
i am a fresh masters degree grad, 3 years of working experience, no NS.
being offered 3.6 and mx12. is this reasonable? because i thought it is kinda low?

thanks!

Kind of depends which ministry you are in. MX13 in MSF starts at 2.8k/month. So 3.6k sounds reasonable for an MX12.