SELOR Make your talent public!. Agenda Presentation of SELOR

SELOR

Make your talent public!

Agenda

• Presentation of SELOR

Selor, Selection office of the Federal Government

Mission and Vision• Selor has as mission:

– to execute demand-driven and competence-oriented Recruitment, Selection, Orientation and certification tasks for its customers, and in this way

– contribute actively to the policymaking within the integrated functioning of Personnel &Organization (P&O) for the federal government

• Selor reaches for the highest degree of professionalism and customer-orientation within the boundaries of deontological rules

Management principles organization

• Closed envelop• Flat organization• Process-driven• Project-driven• Result-driven• Empowerment• Ownership• Quality-driven• Ambition

Expert knowledge of Selor

• Competence-oriented selections at all levels (from technicians to managers, written as well as CBT)

• Organization massive selections

• Performed capacity of computer-controlled tests (430 units)

Values

• Independence

• Professionalism

• Customer-orientation

• Transparency

• Attention for the candidate's talent

Organization Structure

Customers• Federal Government Services (FGS)• Scientific Institutions• Public Utilities• Flemish Community• Brussels Capital Region • Walloon Region• French Community• German Community • Government linked Customers

Platforms for consultation

• Scientific Committee• Management Committee• Consultation with Customers• Forum for Union Consultation

=> exchange and consultation on developments in the field of selection methods and competence measurements

2005 results

• 152.633 subscriptions in the different procedures of which 107.107 in the external selections

• About 342 selection procedures• 130 procedures of orientation• 1.344 online CV in the eRecruiting database

for the internal market• 10.967 online CV in the eRecruiting database

for the contractual selections

2006 results

• 144.014 subscriptions for de different procedures of which 107.796 for external selections

• 264 closed procedures• www.selor.be since 04/10/2006

– 30.222 active cv’s in the online cv-databank– 80.608 subscriptions for ‘vacatures per e-mail’– 17.680 online subscriptions

• Talent@public (6 and 7/10/06) more than 12.000 visitors

Levels in Belgian administration

• Level D: Lower secondary education or no education• Level C: Higher secondary education• Level B: Higher short-term education (3 years /

Bachelor in UE)• Level A: Higher long-term education (4 years or

more / Master- Professional in UE) • Mandatory functions: Higher long-term education (4

years or more / Master- Professional in UE) and min 6 years management experience or min 10 years experience in the field.

Recruitment communication

• Right from the intake Selor should be attractive => act as a pioneer in internal reorganization and image

innovation

• Government attractive for starters (training, projects, flexi-time)

• Bottleneck: profiles with experience (non-competitive salary)=> stress on social impact, innovation projects, challenge

• Recruitment + selection are a heavy investment in future personnel

=> importance of efficient R&S, motivated and competent profiles

=> importance of retention and salary policy

Communication channels

• SELOR site• Other sites (websites of clients, recruitment

sites, …)• Media mix adapted to the function• Teletext• Official newspaper of the federal government• Talent@public

Positive results!

Online inquiry ‘Vacature-Insites’ on selection offices

– Selor nr 3 in ‘top of mind’– Selor best evaluated

Trends survey 2006 : SELOR = 7th most attractive employer among Belgian Enterprises

Key processes

1. Selections

2. Orientation

3. Certification

1. Selections1.1. Selection of statutory personnel

Result: list of succeeded ranked candidates

1.2. Selections of mandatory functions (top managers of the federal authority) Result: list with succeeded candidates ranked in 4 groups (A,B,C,D)

1.3. Selections for contractual personnel via eRecruitement

1.1. Procedure of statutory personnel

• Selection regulations with the collaboration of the client: job description specification of diploma possibility to ask professional experience different tests

• Selection committee for every part in the selection procedure (provided by SELOR : min 2 members and a president from SELOR)

• Actual selection tests dependent on profile– Generic competence profile (10%)– Specific competence profile (90%)

• Technical profiles: often practical test

Managing list of succeeded candidates

Since July 2005 SELOR manages all thelists of succeeded ranked candidates (via eRecruiting):• Contact with the succeeded candidates to

propose open positions in the FGS• If there is a complementary selection,

SELOR manages it.

1.2. Mandatory functions Top managers of the federal authority

• Top managers on 3 levels : president, general director, director• Specific contract (mandate of 6 years – evaluation based on

result)• Selection regulations • Specificity :

always professional experience required (6 years in management or 10 years in the domain of the function)

Always the same procedure: Computer based testing (not eliminating) Interview with case / List of succeeded candidates (A, B, C, D)

Selection committee with 6 members: 2 in management and HR, 2 experts in the domain and 2 top managers

• Decision of the authority based on a shortlist

Best Practices

• For the mandatory functions, the Walloon region and the French Community follow the way of the federal government. The structure of the selection is the same.

1.3. Selections for contractuel personnel (eRecruting)

• SELOR manages database of competence profiles• Job matching based on profile delivered by Federal

Government Service (FGS) • FGS receives a list of anonymous CV, they can do a

pre-selection (gender and cultural guarantee)• FGS receives the personal data of the chosen

candidates and manages the selection• Quality control provided by SELOR for the whole

process.

2. Orientation

2.1.Promotional selections based on competence since 2004 (before only knowledge)

2.2.Internal Market via eRecruiting : this procedure follows the contractual selection

2.1. Promotional selections

• Based on competences

• Methodology adapted to reality

2.2. Internal market = Talent market• Voluntary and functional mobility• Advantages internal versus external market (quicker,

people already know the government, helping hand of Selor,…)

• Management of databank with competence profiles accessible by Federal Government Service (FGS)

• Job matching based on profile delivered by FGS • FGS receives a list of anonymous CV, they can do

a pre-selection (gender and cultural guarantee)• FGS receives the personal data of the chosen

candidates and manages the selection• Quality control provided by SELOR for the whole

process• Create a competence bilan

3. Certification

3.1.Competence certification3.2.Methodology certification

3.1. Competence certification • Competence measurement

– Basic assumption: continuous development of own competences and salary conform with market

– Based on functional groups and corresponding competence profiles

– 5 + 1 model• Generic competences

– Soft– Hard

• Technical competences

– ECDL

• Language tests– Language knowledge for Magistrates– Computer-controlled test -> Atlas

(preparatory CD-rom)– Language test for the Belgian police

3.2. Methodology certification

• Jobpunt

• Project guardian agent

Products

• Quality control of the product processes

• BSC: Balanced Score Card

• Knowledge management

• Care management

• Plaint management

• Analytic accountancy

Product innovation

• In-house development or prospecting new testing methods

• eRecruiting: integrated tool for Recruitment, Selection, and Orientation based on candidate’s unique file

• Utilization of the eID card in the selection procedures

Adapted infrastructure

• 26 selection rooms for oral tests – Also for large selection committees

• Capacity of 430 pc-tests

• Total capacity of 500 written test seats

• Possibility to use video

Some Figures

• Average time for selection : 86 days• Number of selections in 2006 : 610 ( 420

selections and 190 orientation) • Preparing and going on at this time : 334• 56% of the selections = Federal government• 13% of selections = Public utilities• 27 % Computer Based Test selections

(population wise)

Testing methods• Structured interview• Assessments• Computer-based tests• In-tray exercise• Written tests• Role plays• Simulations• Practical tests

Structured interview

• Evaluates soft competences

• Star methodology– Situation– Task– Action– Result

Assessment

• Set of simulation exercises in which previously determined competences are evaluated=> strengths, development needs, potential of candidate

• Selor develops its own assessments

Computer based tests

• Efficient screening of

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• Reporting on

–Personality

–Ability

–Aptitude

Some figures (per year)• 150.000 candidates• 62.432 computerized tests• 430 units (450 units for 2007)

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Any questions?

Selor

Bischoffsheimlaan 151000 Brussels

BELGIUM

www.selor.be

Contact : accountmanagers@selor.be