Human Resources Toolbox

Staffing and assessment services

• 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 Recruitment: Hire university and college graduates into a range of jobs within the federal government.
• PSC Test Results Search Tool: (GC network access 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 Support Centre: A variety of reference documents and tools for using the system. Note: You must be logged into the Government of Canada network.

Learning and resource center

• 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.
  • Staffing Support Advisors: Find the Staffing Support Advisor 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.
• Selection for Retention or Lay-Off
  • Selection of Employees for Retention and Lay-off
  • Selection of Executives for Retention and Layoff
  • Selection of Employees for Retention and Lay-Off Assessment Module
• Letters to Heads of Human Resources: Latest news on a variety of human resources-related topics.
• Political activities: Understanding the political activities provisions of the Public Service Employment Act.
• 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.
• Eligibility for job opportunities in federal organizations: Organizations' statutory links 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.
• Best Practices for Unsupervised Testing: The paper details best practices in the use, development, administration and scoring of unsupervised assessment in appointment processes subject to the Public Service Employment Act.
• Veterans Hiring Act: Important information for hiring managers and the human resources community about the changes to the PSEA and what they mean for staffing.

Oversight and reporting

• Delegation: The PSC's delegation and reporting requirements are included in the Appointment Delegation and Accountability Instrument (ADAI).
• 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.