Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  It's a combination of things. It can be that managers staff in a sequence, in the sense that they start developing their tools once they have their candidate. That takes time. It could be candidate availability as well. If the candidate has applied and is screened in, but is not

Government Operations committee  Yes, we have it at York University and we've done it in Moncton.

Government Operations committee  Not that I know of, no. Not yet.

Government Operations committee  We are actually bringing the hiring manager to meet with the candidate at career fairs. What's conditional about them is that in some instances they need to meet the language requirements. That language testing needs to occur in one of our centres—and security clearances as well

Government Operations committee  They're actually assessed at the career fair. It's just to get them booked on a language assessment for reading, writing or....

Government Operations committee  Usually once we have a candidate identified we try to schedule a test within 10 days.

Government Operations committee  For security clearance it depends on which level, so it could be....

Government Operations committee  I've seen it done anywhere from a couple of days to a month.

Government Operations committee  The Public Service Commission does not do that, because we have our own recruitment platform, GC Jobs. However, some departments do that, because it is another way of attracting people's interest. In any case, the Public Service Commission's nomination policy requires that a comp

Government Operations committee  The notice may be published in newspapers. Nothing prevents managers from using technology to reach as many people as possible. On our side, we must make sure that the competition notice is posted for at least 24 hours on the Government of Canada website, as it is the site the p

Government Operations committee  The notices are almost exclusively digital, but we still use print in some places, like in the North.

Government Operations committee  I think there are a number of reasons why we're not maximizing the use of these inventories. I would just like to clarify that there's the number of applicants, but then we use that number when they start meeting the merit criteria. For example, for PSR, we go from 17,000 applica

Government Operations committee  If I could do one thing, I would provide pools that are more assessed, so the hiring manager could have access to fully assessed candidates to recruit—

Government Operations committee  I'm talking about putting candidates who are fully assessed into the pool, so that managers wouldn't have much work to do. The Public Service Commission would have done the work, and they could just draw from it.