Evidence of meeting #166 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was jobs.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
Because obviously there are a lot of ways it's not working.
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President, Public Service Commission
For example, we're providing guidance to departments on the appropriate use of pools. This is an area where, again, we're not directing but providing guidance. You're right.
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
Okay. Are you continuing the name-blind pilot we spoke about last time?
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President, Public Service Commission
The follow-up to the anonymized recruitment pilot project is a full audit of the progression of our employment equity groups, each group along the staffing system, from applications, screening, and assessment all the way to actual appointment. That study is currently under way. We're looking at hundreds of staffing actions to see what kind of trends we may get. That will be reported in the fall. It's a full audit that we're doing.
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
Great. One of things that came out of the last one that was the most surprising is that we do really have a strong almost anonymous system, but those who were actually in the government already, who knew the buzzwords and knew how to get through it, were the ones succeeding. Have we changed the name-blind process to try to work that out, or are we just continuing as a larger pilot program?
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President, Public Service Commission
That's a broader issue, the inside track that people have. That gets to getting the jargon out of some of the job advertisements, so that we use terms that people can relate to, rather than just the inside government folks. There's some work to be done there, for sure.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Thank you very much.
To all of you, thank you for being here. I know there was a number of pieces of information you might have wanted to transfer to this committee but didn't have an opportunity to do so. Again, should you have additional information that you think would be of benefit to this committee as we continue our study, I strongly encourage you to provide it in writing to the clerk. That would assist us in completing our final study and give us all of the information we may not have been able to elicit from you today.
Thank you for being here, and I will dismiss you.
Colleagues, just as a reminder, tomorrow we are meeting at 8:45 a.m. in room 330 here in the Wellington Building.
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Liberal
Alexandra Mendes Liberal Brossard—Saint-Lambert, QC
I will be meeting at that time, but not at that address.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
We have a video conference with some of our colleagues from oversees. That's why we're meeting at 8:45 a.m.
Thank you. We are adjourned.
