Virtual event
Career Moves | How to Translate Your Work Into Strong Examples
A monthly session to advance your career
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026
Time is displayed in your local time zone
Speakers
What to do next
- Catch up on the 11-minute highlights above or dive into the full recording
- Join the Career Development Community
- Check out our upcoming event: How to Adapt Your Writing for Any Audience
Resources
Join the Career Development Community
The Career Development Community is a collaborative space designed for conversations, insights, ideas and resources on career development in government from your peers across global public service. This community is open to all Apolitical members.
Event Description
The UK civil service is (once again) changing how it recruits, replacing success profiles with a model that will emphasise skills and expertise. Whatever framework you're applying against, strong applications still need the same thing: clear, specific evidence of what you did and what changed because of it.
Strong examples help decision-makers understand the skills you'd bring to the role, not just how you work day to day. They also help you apply for roles across different teams, professions and grades, even if your contributions have been complex or hard to measure.
In this session, we'll break down what makes an example compelling and show how to build one from past experiences. You'll learn how to choose the right story, frame your actions and outcomes and turn your experience into evidence that holds up under any application format. The event will leave you with a repeatable method for preparing examples that feel concrete, credible and easy to assess.
Image Credit: Unsplash
Speakers
Gregor Henderson
Learning and Development Programme Manager, UK Home Office
UK
William Moody
Net Zero Senior Strategy Advisor, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
UK
Gregor Henderson, who began his Civil Service career as an 18-year-old Team Leader in the Department for Work and Pensions. He has since progressed to Grade 7, holding a range of operational and strategic leadership roles across government. He now leads a training team within the Home Office and founded the Scotland Junior Leaders Network, supporting the development of junior colleagues across Scotland.
William Moody, who joined the Civil Service following a PhD and time in academia. He joined initially as an intern through a UKRI scheme and has since progressed to a senior policy lead in the Net Zero Strategy team in DESNZ. His roles have covered a range of topics from futures and foresight, to cyber security, to buildings decarbonisation to net zero strategy. He has also spent time as a mentor, running departmental networks and rolling out carbon literacy training across the Civil Service.
