What are Selection Criteria and why are they used?

Key Selection Criteria are used to seek out the best possible applicant based on skills, abilities, knowledge and experience to fulfill the roles requirements. In order to be considered for a position you must be able to demonstrate through your application that you meet the key selection criteria. If you do not meet the key selection criteria, most likely you will not make it through to the interview process.

Your selection criteria statement will assist the selection panel to assess your application against your fellow applicants and the requirements of the position. Many applicants are overlooked because they don’t clearly address the key selection criteria, they assume that the panel will be able to read between the lines in the cover letter or Resume.

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Many Jobs are posted on smaller websites that cater for niche’s, specific categories, professional associations etc.
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Try typing your title or area of expertise into Google and moving beyond the payed ads and first page results, be specific for example “local government jobs” will return a page called LGJobs this site specifically caters for council jobs available within the local government sector.

You’ll find that there will be much less competition within these sites as most people will follow the masses and go straight to the big guys.

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Good Luck job hunting !

Wishing you Ultimate success

Dustin
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Applying for a job involving selection criteria is something of an art.

CareerOne Editor Kate Southam advises that there are specialist books on the subject that you can buy or ask your local library to get in for you.

The Selection Criteria Toolkit by Dawn Richards and published by Woodslane is a good example. A CareerOne contributor, Dawn’s latest book is Get that Government Job.

Amanda McCarthy of AJM Solutions is another CareerOne contributor. A few years back Amanda kindly wrote a detailed article on selection criteria that you will find below. It is very long but still relevant so take a look.

Background

In the private sector the resume is commonly used to cull and shortlist candidates for jobs. In the public sector, the most important thing is how well a candidate addresses the selection criteria.

If your written responses don’t address the requirements you may not get an interview even if you have the most dazzling resume.

It’s generally a requirement for public sector panels to use at least one “screening” and one “selection” tool to assess candidates against the selection criteria. The most common selection tools used in the public sector include the written application and the interview.

Selection criteria are standards that measure a candidate’s “abilities”, “skills” and “knowledge”. They are generally contained within the job description or may appear in the online advertisement. Both the selection criteria and job duties outline the minimum requirements necessary to do the job.

There are two types of selection criteria “essential” and “desirable”

Read the full article @ CareerOne