‘Non-advertising’ hiring up due to feds’ new appointments policy, data shows
2020/06/03 2 Comments
The new appointments policy allowing for greater flexibility in the hiring of federal public servants came into effect in April 2016, resulting in a greater number of “non-advertised” hiring compared to formal publicly advertised hiring processes and competitions.
The Public Service Commission has reported on an overall increase in non-advertised appointments to 34 per cent of hires in 2017-18 compared to 25 per cent in the previous fiscal year, reflecting the attractiveness of this easier way to staff. 2018-19 data shows a further increase to 35 per cent. Greater use of non-advertised staffing raises the potential risk of the “who you know” factor playing a greater role in hiring and this analysis aims to assess this potential risk.
Source: ‘Non-advertising’ hiring up due to feds’ new appointments policy, data shows (Hill Times)
pdf: TBS New Appointments Policy Impact, New Appointments Policy: Annex A Departmental Comparisons (clearer table than in the HT piece)
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Multicultural Meanderings 
really glad they picked it up right away. curious if there will be any reactions, follow up etc. thanks
Umit
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 7:20 AM Multicultural Meanderings wrote:
> Andrew posted: ” My latest – links below: The new appointments policy > allowing for greater flexibility in the hiring of federal public servants > came into effect in April 2016, resulting in a greater number of > “non-advertised” hiring compared to formal publicl” >
Starting to get some. Most interesting one to date was highlighting that advertised processes were often written in a way to result in favoured candidates and that the flexibility to use non-advertised was a means to do so more transparently while using advertised in a truly open sense to encourage outside applicants and renew the public service.