How are government departments ensuring secure and efficient recruitment and assessment days?
Posted on November 27, 2024
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Scalable assessment centres made easy
Assessment centres are a common recruitment strategy for many government agencies. However there’s a lot of complicated factors to consider. When you’re dealing with candidates for roles in high-stakes industries like national security, law enforcement, the justice system and transport authorities, you need logistics partners you can trust. It’s not as simple as just booking a room.
Security management – both for the venue and data – is critical
Many of the state and federal departments that work with Cliftons to manage recruitment and assessment days are handling sensitive data. That means security is a top priority.
Often for these organisations, having unvetted candidates attend recruitment and assessment activities at their own offices just isn’t an option. A specialist outsourced solution provider and venue partner like Cliftons means an assessment centre can be established off-site with all the logistics managed.
With some assessment tasks requiring online connections, a secure off-site provider is also a safer choice for data security and integrity. Agencies can create a dedicated assessment environment, completely unconnected from their own infrastructure, ensuring no path back to sensitive data storage. In addition, Cliftons comprehensive approach to data management means we permanently delete all information at the end of each day, ensuring both candidate information and government IP are safe.
A positive candidate experience
As recruitment and assessment centres are often early in the candidate’s experience with the hiring agency, it’s important to create a good experience. With centrally located venues across Australian capital cities, as well as partner venues nationwide, using an outsourced supplier like Cliftons makes it easier for you to assess candidates at locations that are convenient for them.
With venues that are easily accessible by public transport, along with comfortable breakout spaces and comprehensive catering, you can create an engaging initial recruitment environment that helps candidates to put their best foot forward.
Complete a variety of tasks in a single venue
Government recruitment, particularly for roles in national security, law enforcement and justice, can have a range of complex assessment requirements, well beyond a standard interview.
Recruitment tools like online psychometric and aptitude tests, task simulations, group scenarios, role plays and more can all form part of a single day. This can include a mix of one-on-one and group activities, often requiring a mix of room configurations. Using a dedicated events venue like Cliftons means you can take advantage of a range of room formats, all in the same venue, as well as options for restricting the movement of candidates between various spaces with high in-venue security protocols.
A venue partner with a track record you can trust
Cliftons understands the complexity of government recruitment, with a strong track record of delivering recruitment and assessment days for Federal and State Government agencies across national security, education, tourism, infrastructure and more. Over the past five years, we have hosted 188 assessment events over 441 day bookings in nine cities, with 7982 candidates assessed on-site at Cliftons locations and a further 7319 candidate assessments via virtual environments. With comprehensive end-to-end support, this has included providing 7634 pieces of equipment including computers, data projectors and video conference units, and 220 hours of admin support to assessment centre clients.
To start planning your next recruitment and assessment day with a supplier who understands the need for security, reliability and the utmost professionalism, reach out to our team.
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