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For Civil Service applicants

Your behaviour statements, written once and ready for every advert.

Every Civil Service job asks for the same nine behaviours at different grades. Save each statement once, tag it to the behaviour, and Backpocket finds your best one when the next advert asks.

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A question you might meet“Describe a time you demonstrated the behaviour Delivering at Pace.”Backpocket findsDelivering at paceand the answers you've tagged with itYour own words, found for a question you haven't seen before. No AI writes anything.

Sound familiar?

  • Writing 'Delivering at Pace' from scratch for the fifth time this month.
  • Squeezing a good example into 250 words, again.
  • Losing track of which statement went to which department.

How Backpocket helps

  • Tag statements to Success Profiles

    Switch on the Civil Service pack and all nine behaviours become tags, so every statement is filed by behaviour.

  • Paste the advert's wording

    Paste a behaviour question and Backpocket shows the statements that fit, with how they've done in past applications.

  • Hit 250 words

    Keep a full version and a 250-word version of each statement, and trim sentences until it fits.

  • Track every application

    Each department and grade on one board, with reminders before sifts close and briefings before interviews.

The Civil Service pack adds these themes to your tags
  • Seeing the big picture
  • Changing and improving
  • Making effective decisions
  • Leadership (Civil Service)
  • Communicating and influencing
  • Working together
  • Developing self and others
  • Managing a quality service
  • Delivering at pace
Based on the Civil Service Success Profiles behaviours.

Free guides

SectorsCivil Service behaviour statements: how to write them, with examplesSuccess Profiles explained in plain English: the nine behaviours, how statements are scored and how to write one that fits the word limit.5 min read

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