Download - PSC P OLICY I NSTRUMENT I NTERPRETATION W ORKSHOP Recruitment & Selection May / June 2011
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PSC POLICY INSTRUMENT
INTERPRETATION WORKSHOP
Recruitment & Selection
May / June 2011
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Today’s workshop
• Welcome
• Housekeeping
• Workshop Objectives
• Workshop Program
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Program• Recruitment and selection instruments
• Role descriptions
• Before advertising
• Advertising
• Assessment, selection and feedback
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Recruitment and selection instruments
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Purpose of recruitment & selection
• To get:
The right person with the skills, knowledge and organisational fit needed to succeed in the role in its current context.
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Basis for determining the right person
• Public Service Act 2008– Merit Principle (ss27 – 29)
• Directive (ss47 -55 Act)
– Type of ruling – Binding
• Agency Policies
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Resources
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Good practice recruitment and selection resources
• Case studies
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Role descriptionsDirective 1/10: Recruitment & Selection – clause 7.2
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Role descriptions
• Directive requirements– Context
– Key duties
– Key attributes for assessment
– Mandatory qualifications
– Pre-employment checks
– Lobbyist disclosure
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Context & duties
• Opportunity to focus on what is needed in the role in its current context.
• Start of the assessment planning process.
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Key attributes for assessment
• The basis on which merit is determined
• Reflects core CLF capabilities (or similar)
• Clear, relevant and assessable
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Before advertising
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Before advertising
• Priority Placement Employees (PPEs)– Directive 14/09 Placement of employees
following machinery-of-government changes or service delivery reform
• Employees Requiring Placement (ERPs)– Directive 12/09 Employment Arrangements
following workplace change
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Before advertising• Considerations
– Exemptions (generally)
• R&S Directive provides exemptions from Advertising [see s7.6 (a)]
• Example: Progressional scheme for X officers in X Department
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Exemptions from advertising Directive 1/10: Recruitment and Selection – clause 7.6(b)
• CEO’s can exempt a vacancy from advertising.
• Where proceeding WILL result in either:– Significant detriment to achievement of
service delivery outcomes; or– Unfair treatment of an employee.
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Appointing a temporary employee to tenured status
- Advertised according directive, and
- Undertaken the role for a continuous period of
at least one year, and
- Performance of a sufficiently high standard, and
- PPEs have been considered.
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Appointing a temporary employee to tenured status
Scenario
A temporary position was advertised in scientific journals/websites but not on Smart Jobs. This position is now required for the long term. Can they direct appoint the temporary employee in the position?
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Direct Appointment (higher duties)
• Undertaken the role for one of the preceding two years, and
• Performance of a sufficiently high standard, and
• Advertised according to Directive.
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Direct Appointment (higher level)
Scenario
An employee has been on maternity leave for 14 months in the last 2 years – does this exclude her from direct appointment in the higher duties position?
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Direct Appointment (reclassification)
• Undertaken the role for one of the preceding two years, and
• Performance of a sufficiently high standard, and
• Substantive occupant, and
• Reclassification only one level higher, and
• Not previously direct appointed in role.
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Direct Appointment (reclassification)
Scenario
An employee is appointed to a role which has been reclassified 2 classification levels above their substantive position – does this exclude them from direct appointment?
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ReportingDirective 1/10: Recruitment and Selection - clause 7.17
• Annual reporting.
• Audit requirement to keep records for at least three years.
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Recurring vacancies Directive 1/10: Recruitment and Selection - clause 7.7
• Same or similar vacancies up to 12 months.
• Must specify the similar roles in Advertising - example:
• Recurring Vacancy for Project Officer – X role – AO5 in Unit X
• Specifies can be appointed to Project Officer – Y role – AO5 – Unit Y / Unit Z
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Advertising
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Specified advertising Directive 1/10: Recruitment and Selection - clause 7.5
• Invitation to individuals / groups of employees to apply for a particular vacancy.
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Targeted advertising Directive 1/10: Recruitment and Selection - clause 7.4
• Limits applicants to those employed by the agency or specified other agencies.
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Lapsing vacanciesDirective 1/10: Recruitment and Selection – clause 7.3(d)
• 12 months from close of vacancy to make a permanent appointment
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Assessment, selection and feedback
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Merit criteriaPublic Service Act 2008 - Section 28
Must take into account:
• abilities, aptitude, skills, qualifications, knowledge, experience and personal qualities relevant to doing the role;
• If relevant – way previous employment undertaken and their potential for development.
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Assessment processes must:Directive 1/10: Recruitment and Selection – Clause 7.9
• Be appropriate;
• Consider experience and potential for development;
• Assess merit as opposed to performance;
• Be procedurally fair and evidence-based;
• Be consistent employment equity principles; and
• Be reviewable – comparative statement.
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Assessment
• Consider the assessment process before advertising.
• Criteria set out in role description.
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Assessment – Common Myths• Myths about bias
– Panel members with a working or personal relationship with an applicant
– Panel composition
– Applicants who have relieved in the role
– Invitations to apply
– Late applications
• Myths about personal knowledge– Personal knowledge of an applicant’s work history
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Screening & Short Listing
• Mandatory qualifications and requirements
• Skills and ability
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Do-It-Yourself options• Work samples
• Skills test
• In-tray exercises
• Role plays
• Presentations
• Structured interviews (behavioural questions or situation/scenario questions)
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Options you can buy-in
• Psychometric testing– ability/aptitude tests– behavioural style/personal trait tests
• Assessment centres
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Referee checking• Job performance
• Disciplinary history
• Workplace behaviour
• Attendance
• Ability to operate in a specific work environment
• Validation
• Clarification
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Selection report requirements
• Must be able to be reviewed;
• Must contain a comparative statement about the applicants;
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Feedback
• Think about the feedback from the applicant’s perspective
• Don’t keep the applicant waiting for feedback
• Make the feedback relevant to the applicant
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Feedback
• Make it interactive
• Deliver the message respectfully and constructively
• Provide specific information about how to improve their application
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Appeal of a promotion decision
• Section 208 of the Act states the appeals officer may set the promotion decision aside if the recruitment or selection process was deficient.
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Further Questions?
• Resources
• PSC Advisory Service
1300 038 472