Recruitment
Guide
How to make your hiring process more accessible
When your recruitment process is easy to access you welcome a broader and more diverse talent pool, including people with disability. This guide offers tips on simple ways to make your recruitment process more accessible in ways that will benefit everyone.
Report
Older and younger workers: what do employers think?
The report provides a snapshot of how older and younger workers are perceived, supported and included in Australian workplaces. Despite the tight Australian labour market, the survey highlights persistent age-based barriers to employment at both ends of the age spectrum. It provides actionable insights on recruitment, lifelong learning and training, health and wellbeing, and inclusivity.
Strategy
Strengthening integrity in the APS
This strategy outlines an approach to administering the employment and integrity framework under the Public Service Act 1999: working collaboratively with agencies to uphold high standards of integrity and conduct in the APS, as required under the Act. The strategy sets out four key objectives, three focus areas and an action plan that will enable...
Report
Operation Kingscliff: investigation report
This corruption investigation (Operation Kingscliff) examined whether a Senior Executive Service staff member in the Department of Home Affairs had improperly used her position to influence the recruitment of her sister’s fiancé into a position in that Department and to assist her sister in another recruitment process. The investigation also examined the conduct of the...
Briefing paper
How recruitment challenges affect businesses
This paper examines the proportion of recruiting employers who reported having difficulty in filling their most recent vacancies, referred to as the ‘recruitment difficulty rate’, and how it affects business performance. Employers who most recently recruited for community and personal service workers were, on average, the most likely to report a negative impact on their...