Recruitment in the public sector

Recruitment platforms

• Jobs and Skills Exchange (JSE)

  The Jobs and Skills Exchange gives VPS employees priority access to job opportunities across the public service.

• Careers Vic

  Explore publicly available roles across the state and the public sector.

• Join a public board

  Find a board role in Victoria and contribute to the management of your state.

Executive recruitment advice

• VPS executive employment

  Access the executive handbook, classification framework, performance measures, employment contract and vehicle package calculators.

• Victorian public entity executive employment

  The Commission provides advice and support on public entity executive employment matters.

• Executive workforce reform

  The Commission is working with the Government, our public service and the broader public sector to deliver reforms to Victoria's executive employment and remuneration framework.

Recruitment advice

• Best practice recruitment and selection

  The Victorian Public Sector Commission (VPSC) provides resources to assist in the recruitment and selection for careers with the Victorian Government.

• Getting recruitment right

  As a line manager, it is your responsibility to recruit the right person for the job.

• Mastering the art of interviewing and selection

  Mastering the Art of Interviewing and Selection is a guide for any line manager who has to recruit staff.

• Guide to hiring with special measures in the public sector

  A special measure is a lawful way to try and give an employee or candidate substantive equality.

• Recruiting people with disability

  A guide for the public sector on how to support individuals with disability applying for a role.

• Pre-employment and misconduct screening

  Use these guides to help develop and implement pre-employment and misconduct screening in your organisation

• Guidance for integrity in recruitment

  Recruitment decisions in the Victorian public sector must comply with the merit employment principle.

• Guidance for integrity in engaging contractors

  Engaging a contractor gives Victorian public sector employers flexibility to meet their organisation’s workforce needs.

• Guidance for managers engaging contractors and consultants

  Victorian Public Service (VPS) departments determine the mix of employment arrangements to best meet their business needs.

• Attracting and retaining an ageing workforce

  Information and practical tools to assist in attracting and retaining older workers for line managers and HR professionals in the Victorian public sector.