{"id":81258,"date":"2017-05-17T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=03ba67fd4654b50004e561fa661c0d4d"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:00:54","slug":"news-story-our-economists-talking-about-the-exciting-opportunities-in-the-government-economic-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81258","title":{"rendered":"News story: Our Economists talking about the exciting opportunities in the Government Economic Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>For a flavour of what you can do as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/provisional-assistant-economist-scheme\">government economist<\/a> , check out these great mini career stories here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m currently in my first role at the Department for Transport working on rail demand forecasting. This is a technical post which requires using excel and specialist rail software and I have attended training courses to help develop my skills. What I like about the job is the constant learning and development opportunities and that every day presents unique challenges.<br \/>\nThe thing I enjoy most about my career in the GES is that I am given a lot of responsibility in my job and my colleagues always take my opinion into account. I also get the opportunity to help out others with their work, getting exposure to different areas that are outside my remit.<br \/>\nI will be rotating in October and my aim is to move department so that I can gain more experience of different working environments and policy areas. In the long term I am interested in the opportunity to take a year out and study for a Masters, and also doing a secondment at a consultancy firm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a picture of Christopher Page\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/63750\/Chris_Page.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Christopher Page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"what-attracted-you-to-the-ges\">What attracted you to the GES?<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In my final year of university, I still wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted to do as a career. Despite a brief belief that I, like my peers, wanted to be an investment banker, I realised I wanted to do something that served the wider British public rather than the shareholders of a company.<br \/>\nMy tutor pointed me in the direction of the GES Fast Stream, the Bank of England, think tanks, and charities. I did research into the various sectors and decided that the GES Fast Stream was my preferred choice. It offered me the opportunity to apply everything I learned in my economics degree to everyday policy problems\/solutions. I was impressed by the variety of work that was on offer, the emphasis put on development, and the level of responsibility that Fast Streamers were given.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"whats-the-best-part-about-working-as-a-government-economist\">What\u2019s the best part about working as a government economist?<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I think the best part of working as a government economist is also the most daunting, which is the level of responsibility Fast Streamers are given. In my first post as an economist, I led on the economic assessment of \u00a3500m worth of government capital spending, with my line manager providing support if I needed it. I was also entrusted to lead on my teams contribution to Spending Review 15, while other colleagues were on leave. While I was initially anxious about the level of responsibility given, I found the chance to be the lead economist on these projects helped develop my analytical and soft skills.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Economist jobs in the UK GES, various opportunities available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}