Alrighty so a while ago I made a video on how to get a job in the Australian public service the easy way and so that's a contracting role. Sorry the dog's just doing its thing over there and this video this video will be on how to get a job as a permanent APS or an ongoing or a non ongoing APS employee rather than as a contractor. So this method takes a fair bit longer and is a bit harder. Before I continue I am not an expert in any way I'm a permanent APS employee but I have no HR experience hot so ever but yeah anyways on we go. Pretty much the first step the first thing you'll need to do is to look at what's called the Gazette so that's APSjobs.gov.au and you need to figure out kind of where your skill level lies so whether that's APS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, EL1, EL2 or SES this will cover kind of APS 1 to EL2 and nothing else. So pretty much your entry level graduate positions APS 3 APS 4 is kind of above a graduate APS 5 generally after what the graduates finish their rotations and they'll become an APS 5 APS 6 is generally when you start getting depending on your department your leadership so your leader team kind of thing sometimes in you know services Australia or home affairs you can lead teams at APS 4s, APS 5s. It really depends on the department so if you're going for like a policy department you might not even have to lead a team until an EL1 maybe an EL2 it really it really depends. So once you identify which level you are going to be applying at make sure you're not overselling yourself don't apply for an EL2 position if you've just graduated university but also you know don't apply for an APS 2 position if you have I don't know if you're a CEO of a major company it's pretty common sense. Once you find a nice job that you want you found your position you found you know your I want to work for this department and do this thing and there's a job for it you click apply here and then you go through all the things so pretty much you'll ask a bunch of information from you answer the information truthfully and honestly and then there'll be an instance where they ask for your pitch so what they're doing now is they want a pitch rather than please answer these four or five questions sometimes they want you to answer questions but that's becoming exceedingly rare more and more often those job descriptions are asking those job positions are asking for a pitch and that's what I'll speak to I'll speak to the ones where you have to answer four or five questions. So once you get to that pitch question what you have to do is look at the job description so the word or the PDF form of the the longest one that you can and there'll be a section that's pretty much this is what we're looking for in a person someone who you know does this someone who does this someone who does this someone who does this not so much you know your job will be to monitor blah blah blah what it's the it's the type of person that they're looking for and try and address them so you'll have 700 approximately words to kind of sell yourself and the pitch has to be yeah your pitch is effectively why you should hire me for this role but what you need to do is you need to do what's called the the star format so that's a situation task I don't know approach and then results so sometimes you just have to go like task approach results it really doesn't matter but because you only have 700 words there's not many examples that you can do so you if you can say you know if you've got an example which addresses multiple points on those on the position description use that example and then use the star format so if there's say for example the position description goes we want someone who communicates clearly responds well to feedback and then I don't know a third example you use an example use use an example where you can demonstrate a bunch of those things and just one like 200 300 word block and just be like during my time as a this person I was required to and then you kind of do the role that you weren't required to do and then say in order to address this issue I did the following steps and then say the result that you achieved so very great outcome because we were able to achieve this in this short time frame and blah blah blah blah so whatever you need to do there'll probably be about eight position description things that they that they want from you and you only have three examples that you'll be able to do within 700 750 words so keeping each example to around 250 words unless you've got like one fantastic example that addresses each point you don't have to address each eight points or whatever how many points are on the job description if it's if you address fewer points but better that's the better option for you to do so do that but also something that you have to do is look up the the Australian Public Service Commission integrated leadership system or whatever it is ILS so in each of your examples depending on your your APS level that you're applying to you'll have what they'll be what's called an ILS profile so that pretty much says like for example an APS six is required to think strategically and engage with risk and communicate clearly that kind of thing you want to be incorporating those points to show that you fit that APS ILS profile into your response so in that first first example say you know I believe this demonstrates my ability to communicate clearly because this or whatever and yeah just look at the they're pretty much buzzwords look at the buzzwords and say you need to include that in your example as well as the position description things and just put them together what if you're kind of an executive level AR one or two application what they're really looking for is not you know examples of you doing something but kind of leading something so don't say you know assisted with or did that you need to say I led this change or championed this process or something like that rather than I was part of the team who did this but yeah I'll put a link below for the ILS profiles because they're really good for kind of pointers if you stuck for examples look at just one of them and you can incorporate that into the job description something else that's important is you'll need a good resume but don't regurgitate your resume into your pitch because they'll be reading your resume you need to compliment the resume so mention you know the job a job that you did in the resume but don't just say as per my resume I did this this is this you need to expand upon it but yeah and then once that's done take a while you'll have some interviews and it could be one interview could be three interviews I'll do reference checks and everything then they'll do a security check a background check a national police check whatever it is you've got a common name that's going to take you a while if you don't have a common name and you don't have like you know criminal convictions that'll be really quick I've a foreign last name so there's not many of me around Australia so the background check tanks pretty quick but then depending on the department that you're at you will probably require a security clearance and that is a more involved process but pretty much it comes down to what you've put in your pitch and then the interview I can't help you with interview you need to figure that out and your own that's difficult interviews are hard but there's a lot of videos on that so yeah focus on your pitch and you'll do 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