Information for human resources specialists
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- Personnel Psychology Centre: Assessment products and services to help hiring managers make effective human resource management decisions in the most cost-effective manner.
- Post-secondary general inventory: Hire qualified university graduates for entry-level officer positions.
- PSC Test Results Search Tool (Publiservice clients only): A Web-based application that allows human resources specialists to retrieve official Second Language Evaluation test results electronically for candidates who have a Personal Record Identifier.
- Staffing and Assessment Services: Integrated staffing and assessment solutions for federal departments and agencies.
- The Public Service Resourcing System User Web site: A variety of reference documents and tools for using the system. Note: You must be logged into the Government of Canada network.
- Appointment framework: Guiding deputy heads in building their own staffing systems adapted to their needs, while ensuring that legislative requirements and core values are respected.
- Appointment framework guides and tools: Guides and tools to assist human resources advisors and other stakeholders involved with implementing the Public Service Employment Act.
- PSC Appointment Framework Knowledge Test: Test used to validate the expertise of human resources specialists who provide staffing advice to front-line managers.
- Strategic consultants: Find the strategic consultant assigned to your organization.
- Bilingual positions in the federal public service: Information on testing, training, policies, legislation and responsibilities.
- Employment equity and diversity: Eliminating barriers in recruitment and staffing and developing policies and practices that will continue to ensure that equity group members are well represented in the federal public service.
- Letters to Heads of Human Resources: Latest news on a variety of human resources-related topics.
- Political activities: Knowing your obligations will help you make an informed decision.
- Priority administration: Exceptional clauses that provide an entitlement, for limited periods, for certain classes of persons who meet specific conditions, to be appointed in priority to others.
- Priority Information Management System (available only to registered human resources professionals): Helping human resources professionals administer priority entitlements.
- PSC summaries of Public Service Staffing Tribunal decisions: Independent administrative tribunal that deals with complaints related to internal appointments.
- Reference list: Organization’s relationship with the Public Service Commission and the Public Service Employment Act.
- The Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order: Statutory instruments under which a public servant may be excluded from complying with the language requirements of their position, in the case of non-imperative staffing.
- Accountability: Guides and tools to ensure your organization meets the accountability requirements and expectations established by the PSC (Staffing Management Accountability Framework indicators and Departmental Staffing Accountability Report templates).
- Audit and Studies Plan for 2012 to 2013: Providing Parliament with assurance that merit is respected in appointments made across the public service.
- PSC statistical information site (Publiservice clients only): Support in statistical analyses of federal public service hiring and staffing activities for departments and agencies that staff under the Public Service Employment Act.
- Staffing activities reporting templates: Organizations have to report on the use of national area of selection in the staffing process and advertised versus non-advertised processes.
- The Staffing Management Accountability Framework: Identifies key areas for a well-managed appointment system that allows the PSC to evaluate staffing performance and provide feedback to delegated organizations.
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