Public Service Commission of Canada

The Government of Canada provides post-secondary students with opportunities to gain work experience and develop skills with federal organizations. The Public Service Commission maintains a list of validated post-secondary academic institutions and programs.

The GC Jobs website is the recruitment platform that lists federal public service job opportunities and inventories that are external (open to the public) and internal (open to federal public servants). The Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) is an electronic tool behind the GC Jobs website....

Hiring activities refers to indeterminate and term appointments to the public service, the hiring of casuals as per subsection 50(1) of the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA) and the hiring of students under the Student Employment Programs Participants Exclusion Approval Order. Indeterminate...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) collects data on individuals who apply through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) for advertisements open to Canadians on the PSC’s jobs.gc.ca website. This enables the PSC to assess employment equity (EE) trends and performance regarding the share of...

Applicant data refers to information on selected characteristics (e.g. geographical area and educational profile) for applicants to externally advertised processes, via the Post-Secondary Recruitment program (PSR), the Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP) and general external...

Population data refers to the number of active employees in organizations under the exclusive appointment authority of the Public Service Commission (PSC) (employees of organizations named in the Financial Administration Act — Schedule I, most of Schedule IV and some agencies in Schedule V). This...

Since April 2018, all organizations are required to use a results reporting structure based on the Policy on Results, which consists of a Departmental Results Framework (DRF) and a Program Inventory. The Policy on Results sets out the fundamental requirements for federal departmental...

A report on 2022-2023 candidacy requests and an overview of the Political Activities and Non-Partisanship Division’s (PANPD) program activities.

The Public Service Commission’s (PSC) Staffing Dashboard provides timely and relevant data on staffing activities and trends that will give deputy heads, hiring managers and human resources specialists a broader understanding of staffing within their organizations and the public service as a...

The Gender-Based Analysis plus (GBA+) Action Plan 2019-21outlines how the Public Service Commission of Canada intends to integrate GBA+ across its activities and business processes between 2019 and 2021. The document identifies specific goals and measures related to the following five components...

The Open Government Implementation Plan document describes the Public Service Commission of Canada’s (PSC) planned activities and deliverables.

"Presentation on the results of the Inclusion and Integration Committee (IIC) Pilot Project and expansion proposal to the PSC's Executive Management Committee. The OpenGov IIC Pilot was created to incorporate OpenGov tools into existing PSC processes to facilitate “publishing with a purpose”...

An analysis of all separations from indeterminate and term positions between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, is presented in this report with the aim of examining the departures of employment equity group members from the public service.

Staffing Update Report: April 2022- September 2022

Reporting on the annual Staffing Support Division Client Satisfaction Questionnaire results for 2022.

Presentation of the highlights of the results of the 2021 Staffing and Non-Partisanship Survey

The investigations function plays an important role in the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC)’s accountability to Parliament. Our investigations help safeguard the integrity of appointments and oversee the political impartiality of the federal public service. Part 5 of the Public Service...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) is responsible for the administration of the Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP). As part of this program, it manages, among other things, a general inventory of students for which it manages the applications received as well as student referrals to...

Presentation to PSC internal governance of an overview of the organizational reporting results stemming from Annex D of the Appointment Delegation and Accountability Instrument (ADAI) for 2020-2021.

The Indigenous Centre of Expertise at the Public Service Commission (PSC) conducted a series of consultations in 2020-2021 to understand and further explore the barriers experienced by Indigenous peoples in federal government recruitment processes and practices.