Applying for Department of Justice Canada Jobs

Below you will find general information about how we will conduct the LC-01 Indigenous hiring process.

For more information about this opportunity, contact us at ex.collectivestaffing-dotationcollective.ex@justice.gc.ca.

Screening Questions

An important part of your online application process will be to answer ‘Screening Questions’. There is one question for each experience criterion as listed on the job advertisement.

When you complete the screening questions, you will be asked to select yes or no. Then you will be asked to include additional information to demonstrate your experience. Please remember to:

• Answer the questions to the best of your ability
• Carefully review the experience definitions to ensure you meet the criteria
• Demonstrate that you have the required experience
• Describe the scope and complexity of your work in detail

Application Review

When the job advertisement has closed, we will review all submitted applications and evaluate the experience criteria. The answers you provide to the ‘Screening Questions’ are used as the primary source for this purpose. Your CV is used as a secondary source.

If you are found to meet all of the experience criteria, you will be ‘Screened In’. If you are found not to meet one or more of the experience criteria, you will be ‘Screened Out’.

We will contact all candidates by email to notify you of your results. If you are Screened Out, you will no longer be a part of the process. If you are Screened In, information about the next evaluation steps will be communicated to you.

Assessment

We are still developing the assessment strategy for this job process, but we anticipate it will comprise a formal interview and manager reference validation.

• Formal interview: A formal (structured) interview includes questions that will evaluate the Key Leadership Competencies and ability criteria. You will find these listed on the job advertisement and in your formal invitation. All candidates are asked the same questions and their responses are assessed in a standardized manner against job-relevant criteria using a predetermined rating scheme. These features help to establish a clear link between performance at the interview and performance on the job and minimize the impact of personal bias on the assessment process.

  If you have qualified in a LC-01 process outside the Department of Justice, we may be able to use your previous assessment results for this process and you would not need an interview. To learn more, contact us at ex.collectivestaffing-dotationcollective.ex@justice.gc.ca.

• Reference validation: A reference validation is a streamlined version of a reference check. We will share preliminary interview results with your references and we will ask them to confirm their accuracy. Your references will have an opportunity to provide concrete examples to advocate for any changes to the assessment. The assessment board will consider this information when completing your assessment.

Development of pool

After the assessment is completed, we will notify all candidates of their results.

Unfortunately, if you do not successfully demonstrate one or more criteria during the assessment, you will be eliminated from the process.

Candidates who successfully demonstrate all the criteria will be placed in a qualified pool. This pool can be accessed by Department of Justice hiring managers across the country for their positions. You may be invited to participate in Second Language Evaluation (SLE) testing in order to determine whether you can be referred for bilingual opportunities. Otherwise, you will be referred for unilingual or bilingual non-imperative opportunities.