Wonderful news for jobseekers and the upwardly mobile careerists among us this week with the resurrection of PS News’s powerfully popular directory of the wildest, weirdest and most wonderful jobs On Her Majesty’s Service anywhere in the nation.
The first selection of opportunities to visit when the urge for a change of fortune strikes, the PS News careers Directory has served the Public Service for more than 10 years, marrying untold hundreds of promotion-poised aspirants with the PS post of their dreams.
Among the fanciful positions on offer this week are a Zookeeper at the Alice Springs Desert Park; a Stipendiary Steward at the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission; and a Botanist at the South Australia Botanic Gardens.
Also on the wish list is a Parks Ranger with the Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service for its pristine Lake St Clair; an Arts Handler at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra; and a Signature Experiences Manager at Parks Victoria to activate new signature experiences!
And if that’s not enough, the usual link to every State and Territory’s jobs websites is also included, rounding out the careers directory to end all careers directories, free and available right here on PS News at this PS News link or by following the careers links from PS News’s home page.
By-lined!
Far be it from PS-sssst! to stoop into the realms of politics but by-elections are in the news at the moment and for the first time in our Methuselah-like memory their correct spelling has come under question.
Despite Wikipedia pointing out that ‘By-Elections’ have been in vogue since the 16th century, a local move is being made to re-brand them as ‘Byelections’ as evidenced in this headline from Sydney’s otherwise articulate Morning Herald: ‘Byelection loss sparks new direction …..’
Ugh!
Most reasonable observers would think that ownership of the word rests with the Australian Electoral Commission since they create, conduct and conclude every by-election held in Australia and, just for the record, it has favoured the 400-year-old version in all of them.
It’s also worth noting that this is a rare occasion in which we can’t point our literal fingers at the United States as the source of the mangling as they don’t have by-elections to misspell.
This is a home-made horror!
PS-sssst! can only hope it is all horrorred out and ‘by-lined’ by the time the next round of by-elections comes up.
Poser disposed
To our parallax poser posed in last week’s PS-sssst! now prompted by a news reporter reporting that 100MW of energy chugged out by a solar panel array was four times bigger than the 20MW an earlier incarnation of the same panel scheme managed.
The challenge of whether 100 is four times bigger than 20 was taken up by Matt K of the South Australian Department for Industry and Skills who pointed out that while the reporter was correct, he or she was also not correct.
“Technically, 100 is 4 times larger than 20,” Matt explained.
“Just not exactly 4 times larger.”
PS-sssst! assumes Matt is referring to the fact that there are 5 lots of 20 in 100 so it can’t be four times as big because it’s already 5 times as big.
If 100 is four times bigger than anything, it’s 25!
Fabulous book prize is on its way to Matt.
Another book prize to anyone who can explain in easier to understand English, what we’re talking about.
Suggestions via the ‘Comment’ button below.
Bureau of giveaways
Another week, another giveaway, courtesy of Rama Gaind and her literature lovers with the public sector based DVD sci-fi thriller The Humanity Bureau starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Lind this week’s exciting offering.
To win a place among Rama’s long list of winners, readers had only to name Lind’s character Rachel’s son and present their correct answer to the judges as one of the first three to emerge from the PS News Barrel of Booty.
And the winners who identified Lucas as the son this week were Roy L from the Department of Defence in South Australia, Michele T from the Australian Taxation Office and Terri W from the South Australian Department for Education.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who took part. The DVDs will be heading to their new homes shortly.
For another chance to book a place on Rama’s winners’ list, simply visit this week’s giveaway at this link and try your luck.
Good luck to all who do.
Breaking barriers
Photo: SADOX
And finally, more good news on the PS News subscriber front with two of our smaller, but especially important, jurisdictions setting new reader records and one of the bigger ones sneaking up on a magic milestone of its own.
The smallest member of the PS News family – the Northern Territory PS – is on the record-breaking trail having stormed through the 1,000 subscribers barrier for the first time this month hitting 1,006 very welcome readers.
At the same time NT’s southern sister, South Australia, did some storming of its own, breaking the elusive 9,000 barrier for the first time, recording a very impressive 9013.
In the meantime the ever enthusiastic and cherished PS News readers in the NSW Public Service have their eyes firmly focussed on the 26,000 mark for the first time, recording a tantalisingly close 25,981 – just 19 readers – short of the formidable record.
Will report that happy event when it arrives!
In the meantime a reminder to all readers that if you are on the PS News subscriber list and you don’t want to be, let us know so we can take you off.
The very last thing we want to do is annoy anyone with unwanted contacts or claim a subscriber who isn’t one.
In the meantime, keep on enjoying PS News – or telling us why you don’t! – along with your other 190,000 fellow subscribers and we’ll attempt to keep delivering its news, information, advice and insights into the PS as we have since 2005.
Till next week……
