The Public Appointments Service offers a range of services to employers in the public sector. These services include a Recruitment Toolkit, which supports organisations doing their own recruitment, and a Client Portal that enables clients to manage elements of recruitment campaigns online. In addition, the Public Appointments Service offers a range of human resources, organisational development, recruitment, and selection solutions.
Our Services
What we offer you:
- A shared service in recruitment and assessment for the Public and Civil Service.
- Carry out all or part of the selection processes for you. It’s up to you.
- Recruit for executive level, specialist level and manage campaigns with large numbers of candidates.
- Use tests and psychometric exercises to help inform our selections.
- Advertising space on our website at no cost to public service bodies
- A Translation Service - your advertisement in both English and Irish
- Immediate/Same day postings of job advertisements
- Unlimited Advertising capacity - you may submit as many ads as you require
- Access to job alerts - your post could potentially be directly advertised to candidates
- Advice and support for recruitment and selection services
- HR Consultancy Services/Management support on filling of vacancies
- Innovative Client Portal that will offer clients the opportunity to manage their own campaigns
- Custom designed interview rooms in our offices at Chapter House, 26-30 Upper Abbey Street, Dublin 1 are available for use by public service clients.
Benefits to using our services:
- We have a wealth of expertise in recruitment, search, selection and assessment.
- We offer public service organisations the opportunity to promote posts to a wide range of potential candidates at no cost to the organisation.
- We have experience in recruiting for a diverse range of organisations including An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive, the EU and universities.
- Through are recruitment process, we find you the best candidates for the roles you advertise
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Recruitment & Selection Toolkit
The Recruitment & Selection Toolkit provides managers with information and practical guidelines on all aspects of recruitment, assessment and selection. This helps organisations recruit and select the right people to serve the current and future needs of their organisations. The Toolkit provides practical advice on implementing transparent, effective and efficient merit-based selection systems and provides information and guidance in relation to putting effective interview systems in place.
The Toolkit itself is a comprehensive, high quality production which provides easy access to all of the information required. It has a Public Sector focus and is packed full of examples and practical advice on implementing all aspects of recruitment and selection from the initial stages of profiling the job and person required, to advertising the job, managing the application process, short-listing applicants, carrying out effective interviews and references, medicals and other types of checks.
The Toolkit has established itself as the foremost reference for best practice in Public Sector Recruitment and Selection.