Government Jobs

New Zealand Government jobs, or the New Zealand Public Service, can be viewed as very different to private or community sector employment.

New Zealands government jobs sector is a multi-faceted sector with many varied jobs opportunities. The government sector is broken up into local, state and territory and federal government agencies with the NZ Public Service falling into the federal public service category and consisting of a large number of organizations.

Each of these organizations contain specific areas such as communication, defence, finance, environment, education and training, health and community services, workplace relations, immigration, science, tourism, and transport. This range of categories allows for a huge array of jobs that you can qualify for.

Government jobs also boast the opportunity for employees to change their career path while staying within the government jobs sector through its support of professional and personal development, further study, and career and leadership development.

Further benefits of government jobs include the opportunities for national and global transfers into other departments with the government sector.

Potential employees are judged based on their merit for government jobs, meaning that the interviewer will compare and weigh-up the skills, experience and abilities of each applicant. This knowledge is learnt through written applications, interviews and work-sample tests which may be far more rigorous than most job interviews for private companies.

When searching for government jobs, jobs searchers should be aware that jobs may be advertised as individual positions, multiple positions within an agency, anticipated positions, cadetships and graduate positions, traineeships and school leaver programmes or temporary employment. Often government jobs will be filled using a governments own recruitment agency and on their websites.

Government jobs cover a large range of jobs corresponding to different roles and levels of responsibility which is sorted into classifications. These classifications include service delivery and advice to the public, policy advice, programme design, implementation, stakeholder management, corporate services such as information technology and technical and professional jobs such as lawyers and journalists. Furthermore, there are a range of administrative support positions.

Overall, government jobs provide an excellent environment for employment with significant benefits, good wages and the ability to experience a range of jobs.