Insider’s Guide to Getting a job in the Canadian Government for Post Secondary Recruitment Applicants

Post Secondary Recruitment applicants

It’s November. By now you may be aware that the Post Secondary Recruitment campaign has opened. Panic hits. Are you good enough? You have finished all your coursework and are waiting for your graduation ceremony. Or you may have already graduated. You know it’s time to get a full-time job. A real job that matches the field of study that you just completed. A job that you are proud of, one that reflects the sweat and blood of your university degree. What will your competition be like? How many applicants will be applying for the job position that you want?

You feel alone. A little feeling of helplessness floods over you. You don’t quite know how to approach the government recruitment process, and everyone tells you that it’s difficult and nearly impossible to get a job. Stop! You are not alone. Tens of thousands of Canadian university graduates feel like this every year. However, YOU can make a difference in your future and get the job that you want.

Every year,  thousands of university students and graduates just like you apply to the Government of Canada through the Post Secondary Recruitment (PSR) campaign. Many are not successful. If you are not careful, you will be screened out very early in the job selection process. How can this happen?

Here are the top three reasons why smart students like you get screened out of the PSR 

1. Poorly written resume and/or Cover Letter: You can be the brightest university graduate with a high GPA, but if you cannot write a compelling resume and cover letter, you will be screened out. There will be many other students that will know how to write one, and pass the first stage of the recruitment process.
2. Poor preparation for the Public Service Entrance Exam (PSSE): This exam is made to screen you out early in the recruitment process at a minimal cost to the Public Service Commission. If you do not excel on these exams you will be eliminated from the process. Also, if you barely pass, you will be stuck in a job pool (i.e., a list where students who pass the PSEE are placed) where you think you’ll have a chance to be offered a position, but the reality is that your chances will be slim to none. Remember, your competition is very tough.
3. Poor Interview preparation: Interviews in the Government of Canada are dramatically different than those in the private sector. You may have to do one or more interviews of a different nature before even meeting potential managers. In certain cases, you may not even meet your manager until your first day on the job.

The PSR campaign and the PSEE are designed to eliminate you before Government officials even meet you in person. Job pools are created after the PSEE is administered so that the Government gains something from the investment of administering the second in-person PSSE  exams. Each step you pass in the job process is the closer you get to potential departmental exams, and eventually the government dream job that you deserve.

There are no second chances in the PSR campaign. That is why you must give it your all. If you fail the PSSE you will not be able to write it again until next year, period. I have received emails from many students who failed the PSEE asking if there is another winter recruitment campaign, they were disheartened to discover that they had to wait another year for their next opportunity. Your life is too important to wait another year for an exam that you can start preparing for today.

You have one chance each year to excel in the PSR campaign (and many departments and some streams sometimes restrict applicants to those applying to two years after graduation). Do you really want to be the student who opens their email to receive a rejection message? Or do you want to be a successful university graduate who wakes up every morning excited to go to their government job where they are changing the everyday lives of Canadians? The choice is yours, but always remember one thing: life continues and you definitely don’t want to be looking at this page one year from now wishing that you made the decision that you could have made todayour.

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