You identify staffing needs, define role requirements, assess applicants and select the final hire for your team.
Your hiring decisions ensure the workforce has the relevant skills and abilities for current and emerging needs. Decisions are not just about filling an immediate vacancy but about impacting the long term success of your agency including its performance, services and outcomes.
This toolkit includes information, resources, checklists and templates to help you apply contemporary best practices in recruitment; and ensure the recruitment process from beginning to end is as efficient as possible.
It is important to use the toolkit in conjunction with your agency recruitment, selection and appointment policies and procedures; and to work with your human resources team as you go about hiring staff.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The information in this toolkit is guidance only and should not be taken as requirements or a particular stance of the Public Sector Commission. Details of public sector policies and mandated requirements for recruitment, selection and appointment are in Commissioner’s Instructions.
There are 12 chapters with accompanying resources to support each chapter.
Chapter 1: Review the vacancy
Chapter 2: Describe the position
Chapter 3: Set a hiring schedule
Chapter 4: Craft and post a job advertisement
Chapter 5: Establish and brief a hiring team
Chapter 6: Manage the applicant experience
Chapter 7: Assess applicants
Chapter 8: Undertake reference checks
Chapter 9: Select applicants
Chapter 10: Write the recruitment report
Chapter 11: Give feedback to applicants
Chapter 12: Provide offers and finalise the recruitment process
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