Thank you very much for the question.
Just to clarify on our national area of selection, what we're doing is applying the requirement to have the competitions open to all Canadians for all the officer-level jobs. This means that the junior clerical support and labour types of jobs are not yet open. That's the final step, if we can get all the systems in place. At this point, as of April 1, we're at the point where 55% of the jobs in the federal public service will be open to all Canadians.
On your question about the odds of getting a job, I'm worrying about that issue. If you look at attachment 4, we have some numbers for you. These are recruitment programs.
What you see in something like post-secondary recruitment—this is to get the entry-level or junior-level officer jobs, people who are recently from college or university—is that we had over 35,000 applications. Some people apply more than once, because you can apply to different streams. But 550 got hired, and not all of those are permanent. So you can see that there's quite a big difference between the number of applications and the number of hires.
If you go down a bit in the attachment, you'll see that for the federal student program, 76,000 applied; we had 8,500 who ended up getting a job. So we have many more who are interested than who actually get the jobs.
That's not the total picture, and this is why I have a worry. I was talking in my opening statement about 45,000 coming in last year. They don't all come through these programs. There are many different routes into the public service. So to answer your question well, I have to have a better sense of all of those. I'm worrying about the routes by which they're coming in, and we're actually undertaking quite a bit of work so that I can get a better understanding of them.