APS HR Professional News

The APS HR School Leaver program, a new entry level program, will commence with a pilot 2022 intake. We outline what the program is, who it’s for and why your agency should get involved.

The new APS Academy recognises that building capability requires a deep commitment to ongoing development. Driving a learning model that promotes continuous learning, the Academy has been charged with ensuring the Australian community and government are served by a highly capable and future-ready APS workforce. We take a closer look at what the APS Academy has to offer.

Creating a capability framework for your HR division is no easy task. Where should you start? How will you get people on board? How do you ensure it will be relevant to your staff? Fresh from their success rolling out a tailored HR capability framework at Services Australia, Irene Hadjion and Amy Marshall recently joined us to share their tips and what they learned from the process.

There’s no doubt HR is changing and needs to offer better services for business. The message is clear: it’s time for HR to embrace transformational change and make sure it has the right capabilities needed for the workplaces of the future. But what does that transformation actually look like?

Returning to work after a period of illness can be a daunting experience. This is something Jade Cordell from Indigenous Business Australia knows first-hand. Jade is also the newest member of the HR Professional Stream working group. We caught up with her to chat about her public service experience and hear her aspirations for the HR Professional Stream.

The APS HR Professional Network uses GovTEAMS as its online community for HR, connecting HR professionals from across the APS. Are you making the most of its many features? Here are 3 handy tips to help you get connected on GovTEAMS.

Belinda Casson, former Assistant Commissioner at the ATO and now Head of HR at the Department of Finance, joined the ATO on temporary transfer at an extraordinary time. It was June 2020; the organisation was in the peak of delivering JobKeeper and most of the workforce had just started working from home

When you’re the HR business partner linking a large, multifunctional workplace with its people, it’s always going to be hard being ‘everything to everyone’ all the time.

We caught up with Head of Profession for the Data Professional Stream and Agency Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Dr David Gruen, to talk about data in HR and why whizz-bang data doesn’t always win.

There are many benefits to having graduates in your team, including their many questions. By digging below the surface, we can sometimes find gold.