Considering a public service career? Now’s the time to get your foot in the door in NSW

By Melissa Coade

July 13, 2022

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The 2023 cohort is the largest group of newly minted public servants NSW has ever taken on. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi)

Life in the NSW public service has been anything but business as usual these past few years — and the demand for smarter, faster and more citizen services means the government is growing its ranks of bureaucrats.

Attention university graduates: If purpose and impact are your caper, the NSW government is hiring.

The state government has announced an ambitious graduate hiring target of 304 new graduates for 2023 — an extra 187 graduates from this year’s NSW public service graduate cohort.

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