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Guides
These guides are designed to assist human resources advisors and other stakeholders involved in implementing the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). These guides are intended to be works in progress. They will be updated periodically to remain as accurate as possible.
- Structured Interviewing: How to design and conduct structured interviews for an appointment process
- Structured Reference Checking: A User's Guide to Best Practices
- Assessing Merit (amended)
- Guide to Establishing Policies Required by the PSC
- EX Appointments (amended)
- Priority Entitlements and Administration
- Political Activities
- Volume Management Guide
Appointment Policy
- Employment Equity in the Appointment Process (amended)
- Official Languages in the Appointment Process amended)
- Choice of Appointment Process
- Area of Selection (amended)
- Advertising in the Appointment Process (amended)
- Assessment (amended)
- Informal Discussion (amended)
- Selection and Appointment (amended)
- Notification (amended)
- Corrective Action and Revocation (amended)
Delegation
- Sub-delegation (amended)
Accountability
Guidance Series
- Integrating Employment Equity in the Appointment Process (amended)
- Official Languages in the Appointment Process
- Choice of Appointment Process (amended)
- Establishing an Area of Selection (amended)
- Advertisements in the Appointment Process (amended)
- Assessment, Selection and Appointment (amended)
- Participating in Informal Discussion
- Managing the Notification Process (amended)
- Corrective Action and Revocation (amended)
- Selecting Employees for Retention and Lay-Off (under revision)
- Best Practices in Investigations
- Employment Offers at Recruitment Events
Tools
- Affirmation of Aboriginal Affiliation
- Appointment Framework Self-Awareness Questionnaire
- Appointment Framework Knowledge Test
- Reference List - Organizations' Relationship with PSC and the PSEA
- Political Activities Self-Assessment Tool
- Staffing Activity Reporting Templates
- Staffing File Documentation
- Source of Requirement - Staffing File Documentation
- Staffing File Documentation Checklist - MS Word format (101 Kb)
Other Links
- PSC Information Kit: an information kit that highlights the new roles and services of the Public Service Commission, as well as key features of the Public Service Employment Act.
- Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order
- PSC HR Toolbox
- Public Service Staffing Tribunal (PSST)
- PSC Glossary
- Related Letters
- To Heads of Human Resources
With the coming into force of the PSEA, the PSC is using letters to Heads of Human Resources as a key mean to communicate key developments to federal organizations.
- To Heads of Human Resources
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