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Important messages

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You must provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience requirements listed in the essential qualifications and other qualifications section. The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties. APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CANDIDATE MEETS THE SCREENING CRITERIA MAY NOT BE GIVEN FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

Work environment

This process will be used to staff a seasonal full-time position from February to September. The incumbent will be required to travel on a regular basis to various Arctic locations (such as the Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP)’s facility in Resolute, Nunavut) for several cycles of approximately 6 weeks each during the field season.

Intent of the process

Immediate need is to staff a position (Indeterminate period) in Resolute. The language
requirement is English Essential and a Reliability Status security clearance is
also required. A pool of fully or partially qualified candidates may be
established through this process to staff identical or similar positions at Natural
Resources Canada at the GS-FOS-05 group and level with various tenures
(determinate period or permanent), various linguistic requirements (imperative
and/or non-imperative), language requirements (English Essential, French
Essential, English or French Essential and Bilingual) and profiles (BBB/BBB,
CBC/CBC, CCC/CCC, etc.), various security requirements (Reliability Status,
Secret), various conditions of employment and for various locations.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

A covering letter in 5,000 words (maximum) "Candidates must clearly demonstrate IN THEIR COVER LETTER (max. of 2500 words) how they meet the education and experience factors listed in the essential qualifications. Candidates must use the experience factors as a header and describe how they meet each experience required. Resumes may be used as a secondary source to validate the experience described in the cover letter. FAILURE TO PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION BEING REJECTED."

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Red Seal Chef Certification or an acceptable combination of training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

- Experience in planning, coordinating, preparing and delivering meals for groups of 30 to 180 people per meal.
- Experience in maintaining and updating food stock inventory.
- Recent experience (within the last 2 years) working in a commercial, industrial or institutional setting.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

- Knowledge of sanitation principles and practices in a food services environment.
- Knowledge of nutritious hot/cold food preparation and cooking techniques.
- Knowledge of kitchen/cooking/food related terminology.

- Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally.
- Ability to prioritize.
- Ability to interpret recipes and follow instructions.
- Ability to prepare hot, cold and buffet food from standardized recipes.
- Ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 20 kg in accordance with general safety practices.

- Client service orientation
- Dependability
- Effective interpersonal relationships
- Flexible
- Initiative

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

- Experience working in the North.
- Experience working in an isolated location.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

- Undergo pre-employment medical suitability to work in an isolated location.
- Willing and able to travel to various locations in the Arctic on a regular basis.
- Willing and able to work in isolated Arctic locations for extended periods of time.
- Willing and able to work long hours and overtime, including work on week-ends.

Other information

Reference checks will be sought.

An interview will be conducted.

A written examination will be administered.

If you are selected for further consideration, please advise the person who will contact you of any accommodations you may require during the selection process.

Candidates must meet the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only).

Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

The Assessment Committee reserves the right to contact references other than those provided by the candidates (within the Public Service only), if found necessary, in order to adequately assess the candidates.

Candidates from outside the public service may be required to pay for travel and relocation costs associated with this selection process.

For this selection process, it is our intention to communicate with candidates via email for assessment purposes. This will include invitations to written tests and interviews. To that end, candidates must include a valid email address in their application. It is the candidate's responsibility to ensure that this address is functional and that it accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is also the candidate's responsibility to ensure accurate information is provided and updated as required.

Candidates must meet the conditions of employment and continue to meet these same conditions during their employment.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.