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....

The Public Service Commission’s (PSC) Priority Entitlement Program supports the referral and placement of persons with a priority for appointment in the public service, as outlined in the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA) and the Public Service Employment Regulations (PSER). Under this legal...

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 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...

Part 7 (Political Activities) of the Public Service Employment Act and its Regulations provide a regime for governing the political activities of public servants, while recognizing the need to balance their rights to engage in political activities with the principle of an impartial public...

Ministerial staff are hired by ministers pursuant to section 128 of the Public Service Employment Act. Section 35.2 of the Act allows eligible former ministerial staff to apply to advertised internal appointment processes that are open to employees of the federal public service for a period of...

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...

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...

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.

The Annual report on delegated authorities under Part 7 of the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA) which provides information on candidacy requests and program activities for 2021-2022.

Reporting on the annual Staffing Support Division Client Satisfaction Questionnaire results for 2021.

This report examines how frequently non-citizens and permanent residents apply for and are appointed to jobs advertised to the general public. It also explores the employment equity representation of citizens, non-citizens and permanent resident applicants and appointments.

Staffing Update Report: October 2021 - March 2022

This report provides an update as of 2020-2021 and sheds more light on the trends following the implementation of the New Direction in Staffing.

Presentation of the results of the 2021 Staffing and Non-Partisanship Survey for Federal Public Servants who are members of an employment equity group (except persons with disabilities)