Welcome to the Fast Stream

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Improving people’s employment prospects? Widening access to public services? Defending the country against natural disasters? There’s no limit to where your ideas could end up when you’re working on the Civil Service Fast Stream.

Here, you won’t just be thinking about the big issues. You’ll be coming up with innovative solutions and applying them in the real world.

This part of the website is designed to give you an overview of the Civil Service Fast Stream and what life might be like if you decided to pursue a career with us. There are tips to help you through the online application process, details of all the options open to you, plus profiles of real Fast Streamers who've been through it all and now work at the heart of government. So take a look around. Explore and find out what the Fast Stream could mean for you. A brochure for each of the schemes can be downloaded by clicking on the scheme acronym: GFS   GES   GSS   HRF   TIB

Latest News:

Times Top 1004 January 2010 - Fast Stream and Diversity Internship schemes now closed for registration and application. Round 2 of Economist and Statistician schemes open on 1 February 2010. Please see How Do I Apply for details.

Student wins tour of No. 1029 May 2009 - Student wins tour of No. 10.
The lucky winner was Emily Sullivan from Northumbria University. Emily took her tour of No. 10 Downing Street and thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Find out more by clicking on the photo of Emily at No. 10. 
 

Target Jobs Awards21 May 2009 - The Civil Service’s graduate programme, Fast Stream has won The Employers' Award for Best Practice in Graduate Recruitment.
Find out more by clicking on the photo of the award!