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Phase 2 "go live"
We are pleased to announce the go live of Phase 2 on Friday 30 October 2009 involving our four pilot agencies; Corrective Services, Premier and Cabinet, Services Technology & Administration and WorkCover.
Thank you and congratulations to all members of the Pilot Agency Working Group and to your project teams and recruitment staff for the commitment and support over the past 12 months to the NSW Government's e-Recruitment project.
2 November 2009
Phase 3 "kick off"
32 agencies are involved in Phase 3 of the e-Recruitment system implementation.
Phase 3 agency representatives attended a "kick off" meeting on Friday 13 November 2009.
Covering:
Governance approach
Project plan / stages
Data gathering resourcing requirements
Resources
Phase 3 "go live" is scheduled for March 2010.
2 November 2009
jobs.nsw Website Launched
We are pleased to announce on Friday 9 October, 2009 the launch of the new jobs.nsw website (www.jobs.nsw.gov.au). The new website has a totally fresh new look and feel and contemporary and secure functionality.
9 October 2009
Phase 1 Progress
We are also pleased to report that all NSW Government agencies have transitioned to the new e-Recruitment system.
9 October 2009
Getting Ready for Phase 2 "go live"
There are six phases to the overall deployment of the e-Recruitment system, the launch of the new jobs.nsw website involved all NSW Government agencies changing over to the new website.
Phase 2 comprises of four pilot agencies - Corrective Services, Premier and Cabinet, Technology and Administration and WorkCover. These agencies have recently completed the analysis and design work associated with the full end to end recruitment system and recently completed User Acceptance Testing.
9 October 2009
Phase 2 Workshops
Workshops are being conducted between 5 and 25 August 2009 with Phase 2 Pilot Agency participants (Commerce, Corrective Services, Premier and Cabinet, and WorkCover) to validate external and internal recruitment processes, metrics and correspondence in preparation for the full end to end e-Recruitment system implementation in October 2009
3 August 2009
Phase 1 Training News
Phase 1 training commences in August. The training will be in two sectors with agency trainers, recruiters and super users receiving face to face workshops; and case managers receiving self paced learning available on line.
3 August 2009
e-Recruitment System Testing
During July extensive User Acceptance Testing was carried out for the Phase 1 functionality. The e-Recruitment Team coordinated the testing with agency stakeholders. The testing involved assessing the system across all Phase 1 functionality in readiness for the go live.
30 July 2009
Phase 1 Training
Phase 1 training is currently being coordinated and those involved will be part of an exciting new chapter in job recruitment for the NSW public sector.
Phase 1 will allow government employees and external candidates to have improved access to on-line services through the new jobs.nsw website, a brand new website that will revolutionise the way people find jobs in NSW Government.
We are working to bring Phase 1 forward and the e-Recruitment system will be rolled out in six phases across the sector between October 2009 and December 2010.
July 4 2009
Taleo Appointment
NSW Government underwent an extensive and comprehensive tender evaluation process, done in accordance with the State Contracts Control Board regulations, to ensure the most appropriate product was selected for the e-Recruitment system.
Taleo Corporation has been appointed to provide the e-Recruitment system for NSW Government. Taleo has a proven track record in providing e-Recruitment systems to organisations of the size and complexity of NSW Government.
17 June 2009
Briefing Day
On Wednesday May 20 a briefing day was held at the State Library of NSW to enable representatives from 32 Phase 3 agencies to receive an e-Recruitment overview, plus information on the functionality of the new e-Recruitment system and the strategic HR opportunities.
Case studies were presented by two pilot agencies, Corrective Services and WorkCover. Janene Browning from Workcover presented a case study on engaging and interacting with their client agencies throughout the implementation of the e-Recruitment system. Judy Windle from Corrective Services then presented a case study highlighting the strategic opportunities of the e-Recruitment system implementation.
20 May 2009
Deployment
There are six phases for the overall deployment of the e-Recruitment system.
- Phase 1 96 agencies October 2009 (changing over to the new jobs.nsw website)
- Phase 2 4 pilot agencies October 2009
- Phase 3 32 agencies February 2010
- Phase 4 16 agencies May 2010
- Phase 5 17 agencies October 2010
- Phase 6 27 agencies December 2010
20 May 2009
Phase 1 Data Collection
Phase 1 involves changing over to the new jobs.nsw website which will have a fresh new look and feel as well as functionality designed to replicate current functionality. On 14 April 2009 all current jobs.nsw agencies were contacted to provide data for the set up of Phase 1 implementation. The data collection is designed to obtain information on users, organisation structure and locations and will form the foundation for future data collection.
14 April 2009
Tender Update
Tenders to provide the e-Recruitment solution are now being finalised. The evaluation is done in accordance with the State Contracts Control Board regulations.
4 May 2009
Deployment Strategy
In the past month HR representatives from all agencies have been contacted to endorse the allocated deployment phase for their agency. The quick response and support received to this request was very encouraging with all agencies now confirmed in the deployment strategy.
4 May 2009
Project planning
After an extensive scoping exercise a comprehensive implementation project plan for all phases of e-Recruitment deployment has now been completed.
20 March 2009
Deployment planning
The NSW Government e-Recruitment solution will be rolled out across the sector between October 2009 and December 2010. To help NSW government agencies plan for this implementation a deployment strategy has been developed and distributed to all agencies HR representatives. There are six phases to the overall deployment of the e-Recruitment system.
- Phase 1 involves changing over to the new jobs.nsw website which will have a fresh new look and feel as well as functionality designed to replicate current functionality. All current jobs.nsw agencies will be involved in Phase 1.
- Phase 2 involves the four pilot agencies: the departments of Commerce, Corrective Services, Premier and Cabinet, and WorkCover.
- Phases 3, 4, 5 and 6 involves the rolling implementation of the system to all NSW agencies.
20 March 2009
Pilot Working Group update
On March 2 representatives from pilot agencies attended a capability framework workshop, hosted by the e-Recruitment team and facilitated by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, designed specifically to address practical issues in using the framework with the e-Recruitment system. Over the past month the pilot agency working group has endorsed the terms of reference, project charter, implementation project plan, stakeholder identification and system configuration workshop schedule.
20 March 2009
New jobs.nsw visual branding and website design
- The e-Recruitment team has commenced work with the web developer to develop a fresh new look and feel for visual branding and website design. There will be extensive focus group testing of the new website design.
20 March 2009
Tender evaluation
Tenders to provide the e-Recruitment solution are now being evaluated. The evaluation is done in accordance with State Contracts Control Board regulations. Ten international and Australian businesses met the January 27 deadline for tender submissions.
- Tender documents can be viewed on the government's eTendering website.
28 January 2009
Working group action
The newly formed Pilot Agency Working Group meets fortnightly from February 18. The group is made up of representatives from the e-Recruitment pilot agencies, ServiceFirst, consultants PinPoint HRM, the successful vendor, and the e-Recruitment team.
- The objective of the Pilot Agency Working Group is to adopt a new operational and strategic focus to champion change in recruitment practices through the implementation of the e-Recruitment solution.
28 January 2009
Access and equity
To help everyone across the community have better access to the NSW government's future online recruitment services, the e-Recruitment team is looking at innovations and practices that can be introduced or upgraded so that, for example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those whose first language is not English, and people with disabilities or living in rural areas can take advantage of public sector employment opportunities.
23 January 2009
e-Recruitment project online
The website for information on the e-Recruitment solution went live on January 21 2009.
It will be updated with news and progress.
Soon too this website will be the entry point for the e-Recruitment extranet.
The extranet will enable pilot agencies, the successful vendor and others critical to the project's success to log into their own site via the e-Recruitment homepage and work together online.
For more information please contact e-Recruitment@dpc.nsw.gov.au.
21 January 2009
Tender Opens
Tenders are now being called to provide the e-Recruitment solution. Documents can be viewed on the eTendering website. Tenders close at 9.30am on Tuesday January 27 2009.
21 January 2009
Pilot agencies
The departments of Commerce, Corrective Services, Premier and Cabinet, and WorkCover are the pilot agencies for the e-Recruitment solution.
21 January 2009
Briefings
December saw two e-Recruitment briefings:- for interested vendors on Thursday December 11 2008, and
- pilot agencies on Wednesday December 17 2008.