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Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

**Please note:

1. All competencies may be assessed throughout your application (the answers you will provide to the screening questions, exchanges and emails).

2. Following the closing date of the poster, only the applicants who has answered "yes" to all essential education and experience and provided the necessary information in their application will receive a document to be filled out and returned 48 hours after. In your application, please include an email address that can be used.

3. An exam will be administered from November 22, 2018 to November 26, 2018.

4. Interviews will be conducted between December 4, 2018 and December 12, 2018. Please ensure you are available during this time.

Work environment

If you get excited by business, innovation or scientific discovery, then our department is for you.

More specifically, we work with Canadians in all areas of the economy and in all parts of the country to improve conditions for investment. We enhance as well Canada’s innovation performance, increase Canada’s share of global trade and build a fair, efficient and competitive marketplace.

We also manage Canada’s airwaves and oversee Canada’s bankruptcy, incorporation, intellectual property and measurement systems; we provide financing and industry research tools to help businesses’ develop, import and export; we support scientific research; and we protect and promote the interests of Canadian consumers.

Intent of the process

A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be created to staff similar positions with various tenures (indeterminate, deployment, specified period, assignment, secondment), various security requirements and various language profiles. By default and in the interest of the greater public service, pools created as a result of collective staffing processes at ISED will be shared with other government departments.

Positions to be filled: 10

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization* in Economics, Sociology or Statistics

* Acceptable specialization is at least one full year course or two half-year courses in Economics, Sociology or Statistics

Part A Notes:
Candidates must always have a degree. The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and may have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization. The specialization may also be obtained through an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

You have acquired at least two (2) years’ experience where you wrote recommendations, advice or reports in a work environment

You have acquired at least two (2) years’ experience where you conducted complex* research and analysis and provided options / recommendations for use by management.

* Complex is defined as referring to at least one (1) of the following characteristics: involving multiple partners or stakeholders, impacting an organization, having a potential for a significant socio-economic outcome, legal outcome or other similar characteristics.

You have acquired experience where you worked collaboratively with stakeholders and partners.

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

Various language requirements

Information on language requirements

Achieving Results (Getting things done – quality services in a timely manner)

Adaptability (Adjusting how you perform and think about things as well as continually learning from changes going on around you)

Analytical Thinking (Using a logical reasoning process to break down facts and work through a problem to arrive at an appropriate outcome)

Initiative (Identifying opportunities and taking action to improve results, without being prompted by others)

Relationship Management and Collaboration (Collaborating to achieve common goals by cultivating mutually-beneficial relationships)

Research (Developing greater understanding of an issue through the application of research methodologies)

Written Communication (Getting written messages across to varied audiences for maximum impact)

Effective Interactive Communication (Getting verbal messages across to varied audiences for maximum impact)

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

Graduation with a Master’s degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in economics, sociology, statistics, business/commerce, political science, public policy, mathematics or a related field.

Degree equivalency

Experience in change management projects.

Experience in corporate planning such as reports on plans and priorities, corporate reporting, accountability frameworks, performance management, corporate risk profiles and business continuity planning.

Experience with data analysis and interpretation.

Experience in social or economic policy development or analysis.

Experience in program design, program development, program analysis or program evaluation.

Experience writing technical documents for publication.

Experience in conducting legal research.

Experience using business intelligence tools such as Cognos, SPSS and SAS.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Secret security clearance

Depending on the position to staff, requirements could apply such as:

Willingness and ability to work overtime
Willingness and ability to travel

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

If you do not fully complete the screening questions as instructed, you will be screened out.

Further assessment may be conducted on the experience provided depending
on the position to fill.

Reference checks may be conducted upon appointment.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed. Meeting one or many of the other qualifications may be a deciding factor in appointing a particular candidate amongst the qualified candidates. Please note that one, some or all of the Asset qualifications could be used at any stage of the staffing process.

Please ensure you indicate your Personal Record Identifier (PRI), your substantive group and level and your employment status in your application.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.

Only indeterminate employees at the same group and level or equivalent will be considered for deployment.

An assignment/secondment or an acting appointment is a temporary resourcing option. The approval of your substantive supervisor may/will be required before an offer can be made.

Communication for this process will be sent via email. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required; Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email).

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

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