Hi Partnership, The timescale between jobs in the CS/PS has long gone. It was hardly worth the paper on which it was written. For those looking in and wondering what I am talking about. Some years ago there was an "edict" that anybody in the PS/CS availing of voluntary redundancy had to wait a specific number of years before applying for another job in the CS/PS. That probably sounds crazy to any forward thinking reader here and the reason is that it was crazy. There is nothing stopping anybody leaving a CS/PS job today and getting another job in another government department tomorrow.