Australia has many regulatory agencies performing important work, including, by familiar acronym, ASIC, AMSA, ACCC, TGA, CASA, ACMA, plus regulatory areas within departments, and many more in state and territory governments. Often derided by the term ‘red tape’, designing, managing and enforcing regulations helps to keep us safe, build trust and confidence, ad operate with … Continue reading →| Selection Criteria
This article continues with another six reports that demonstrate the value and importance of social skills in various contexts, Workplace incivility and rudeness are contagious Much has been written on psychological safety in the workplace, particularly its impact on mental health. Flinders University workplace safety expert Valerie O’Keeffe, co-author of a report on harmful behaviours … Continue reading Social skills: nuanced, multi-faceted, contextual (Part Two)→ The post Social skill...| Selection Criteria
There is ample evidence to discount the many disparaging and inaccurate terms (such as ‘soft’, non-technical, non-cognitive) used to refer to social skills. Multiple terms are used to refer to the same skill. Sometimes skills, behaviours and attitudes are confused and used interchangeably. Social skills can be referred to as unmeasurable, and a lack of … Continue reading Social skills: nuanced, multi-faceted, contextual (Part One)→ The post Social skills: nuanced, multi-faceted, conte...| Selection Criteria
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Whether you’re applying for an artificial intelligence-related job or not, it’s worth knowing about Australian government documents on the subject, as many areas of the APS are already using AI. Benefits of using AI are seen to include more efficient and accurate agency operations, better data analysis and evidence-based decisions, and improved service delivery for … Continue reading What APS applicants need to know about AI→ The post What APS applicants need to know about AI appeared...| Selection Criteria
It’s time integrity assessment was compulsory during APS recruitment, including promotions and transfers. Results from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) 2024 Commonwealth Integrity Survey, combined with multiple integrity-related inquiries and reports, suggest that more is needed than just a reminder to job applicants that APS staff must comply with and uphold the APS Values, Code … Continue reading →| Selection Criteria
How to win a public service job has long been a mystery to both newbies and insiders. Given a long record of unnecessarily complex and protracted recruitment processes, you’d think the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) would want to know if the one-page pitch works better than responses to selection criteria. With eight years’ usage … Continue reading →| Selection Criteria
How to Write and Talk to Selection Criteria 7th edition Updated 2024 Before purchasing a product please read the instructions on downloading e-products within 48 hours. Format: PDF with Index ISBN: 9780975756157 Libraries should use the option for multi users. How to Write and Talk to Selection Criteria (7th ed. Updated) updates developments since the end … Continue reading →| Selection Criteria
Applicants applying for team leader, manager, and leader roles need to understand psychological safety and their part in fostering this important aspect of workplace culture. As pointed out in Fostering a pro-integrity culture, psychological safety is a necessary element for building a culture of integrity. Two 2024 documents give further insight and information about the … Continue reading Insights into demonstrating fostering workplace psychological safety→ The post Insights into demons...| Selection Criteria
Stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills are often sought for public service jobs. These are valuable social skills, requiring knowledge, understanding, and specialist skills. APS Craft: Engagement and Partnership Engagement and Partnership is one of six capabilities comprising APS Craft. Broadly, it refers to what the APS Academy defines as ‘working with others to shape policy … Continue reading 21 questions to inform stakeholder engagement examples→ The post 21 questions to inf...| Selection Criteria
There are multiple problems with referring to critical, life-enhancing social skills as ‘soft’. One that is almost universally ignored in the skills literature, is that social skills are spoken about in generic terms, without analysing their detail, diversity and complexity. I raised this issue in my submission to Jobs and Skills Australia about their proposed … Continue reading Social skills are diverse and complex, not generic nor ‘soft’→ The post Social skills are diverse and c...| Selection Criteria
One subject to prepare for during a public service recruitment process is integrity – upholding values, abiding by codes of conduct, and building an integrity culture. This particularly applies to senior and executive roles. The range of opportunities for integrity challenges may surprise you. Two reports provide insight into this subject. The integrity mismatch The … Continue reading Integrity: Understanding the public servant/politician integrity mismatch and how to identify integrity a...| Selection Criteria
How language frames topics, including the classification systems of science, is a powerful process. By selecting some aspects of a topic, we make them more salient, promoting a particular perspective, diagnosis, solution, interpretation. As marketers and politicians well know, this process is highly effective in persuading us to a way of thinking and acting. Robert … Continue reading →| Selection Criteria