Mentoring young civil service managers in Sweden

To help newly recruited civil service managers integrate better, the Swedish Agency for Government Employers (Arbetsgivarverkets) has set up a six-month-long mentoring programme. This initiative has a twofold objective: to raise awareness of diversity in the public sector (the highest in the EU) and to help non-Swedish people become better acquainted with the Swedish administration's way of doing things. Mentors are experienced executives who have had similar experiences themselves.