❓ Hon Dr Steve Thomas asks about the number of public sector positions filled by external candidates over the past 10 years. The Minister responds that the data is decentralised and retrieving it would be prohibitively resource-intensive.
AnsweredQoN 857Legislative Council
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PUBLIC SECTOR —
RECRUITMENT
857. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Public Sector Management:
(1) In each year
of the last 10 years, how many Western Australian public service positions
between level 6.1 and class 4 inclusive that were filled through recruitment
were filled by people who were not at the time already employees of the Western
Australian public service; that is, how many positions were filled from outside
the Western Australian public service?
(2) In each of
the last 10 years, how many Western Australian public service positions between
level 6.1 and class 4 inclusive filled through recruitment were filled by
people who had never been previous employees of the Western Australian public
service?
RECRUITMENT
857. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Public Sector Management:
(1) In each year
of the last 10 years, how many Western Australian public service positions
between level 6.1 and class 4 inclusive that were filled through recruitment
were filled by people who were not at the time already employees of the Western
Australian public service; that is, how many positions were filled from outside
the Western Australian public service?
(2) In each of
the last 10 years, how many Western Australian public service positions between
level 6.1 and class 4 inclusive filled through recruitment were filled by
people who had never been previous employees of the Western Australian public
service?
AnswerView source ↗
I
thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Public Sector
Commission advises the following.
(1)–(2) Information
relating to recruitment processes of the last 10 years are held by individual
agencies, many of which have been impacted by machinery-of-government changes, and
therefore the question would need to be referred to all agencies separately.
However, for even a small agency, this would be particularly onerous. Any
attempt to answer the question would require a manual review of files for each
recruitment process. Given that the 2017 public sector separation rate alone
was 7.2 per cent, responding to the question would entail the manual review of
a significant number of files across government, and the resourcing, time and
cost involved would be prohibitive.
thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Public Sector
Commission advises the following.
(1)–(2) Information
relating to recruitment processes of the last 10 years are held by individual
agencies, many of which have been impacted by machinery-of-government changes, and
therefore the question would need to be referred to all agencies separately.
However, for even a small agency, this would be particularly onerous. Any
attempt to answer the question would require a manual review of files for each
recruitment process. Given that the 2017 public sector separation rate alone
was 7.2 per cent, responding to the question would entail the manual review of
a significant number of files across government, and the resourcing, time and
cost involved would be prohibitive.
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