Applying for jobs
Aboriginal employees value-add to all workplaces; are resilient and draw on a range of inherent cultural strengths. When applying for jobs make sure to bring attention to these unique qualities and consider how they can be highlighted to show your ‘merit’. If you are unsure about how to make connections between your qualities and ‘merit’ talk to someone you trust such as an Aboriginal mentor.
Decisions about who gets a job in the Tasmanian State Service are informed by the 'Merit Principle'.
To uphold the merit principle, selection panels compare every applicants’ skills and experience with the skills and experiences genuinely required to do the advertised job to help them choose the successful candidate. By doing this, selection panels aim to give all applicants a fair and equal chance to gain employment.
Increasing employers are endeavouring to apply the merit principle to a more diverse range of skills, knowledge and experiences. It is beneficial to take some extra time to demonstrate less obvious merits such as lived experiences, a first-hand understanding of Aboriginal services and programs, and or community development experience gained within your Aboriginal Community in your job application and interview.
Make sure that the merits you highlight in your job application match up with the roles and responsibilities and the selection criteria for the position you are applying for. This may assist panel members to explore and apply the merit principle in different, less obvious ways.The following section outlines some of the methods that our selection panels use to find out about applicants’ skills and experience, and what to expect as part of a Tasmanian State Service job application process.
We hope this information is helpful as you look for a job. If you have any questions before applying, or during a selection process, please contact the job advertisement’s Contact Officer.
Finding out about jobs
- Our jobs are always advertised on the www.jobs.tas.gov.au website under each agency, with new adverts uploaded daily.
- Casual and fixed-term jobs are also advertised on this website under Employment Registers
- Occassionly we also advertise jobs on other online websites like SEEK, in the newspaper, and shared through professional networks.
- So you don’t miss out on opportunities by subscribing to receive job alerts.
