Government employers are increasingly paying more attention to how they onboard new employees – but why wait until their first day on the job? In Denmark’s public service, a Campus account is created for new recruits right away, giving them access to all the administrative aspects of their new job and allowing them to get in touch with their soon-to-be colleagues.

Under the act to transform the French civil service, the scoring system introduced in 1959, which is still in use in hospitals and care facilities, is being replaced by an annual career interview, as is already the case in the other two branches of the civil service. The change will apply to over a million public servants and, once practices are harmonised, is expected to open up more job mobility opportunities.

Spain’s civil service is introducing a mandatory training curriculum on gender equality, similar to training on rights and obligations and service quality, to ensure a common understanding of equality in the workplace. Every civil servant, regardless of job level, will need to take the training over the course of their career, allowing them to accrue a body of knowledge which will be recorded in their personnel file.