Recently, the department has done surveys to determine what the best method was to attract people to the public service, by asking individuals that have come to work for the government how they got their information to come to the government. Only 2 percent of the individuals that came to work for the government had indicated that they had found their position advertised in the paper, so we are doing e-recruit.
A lot of our strategies now have been to do e-recruitment right across the Territories and in the communities. These positions will appear on the website and what we are doing is asking individuals to submit their resumes to the government electronically and we’re putting them into the system and we’re trying to match the positions, the individuals with their skills with the positions that are available.
We recognize that there is certainly a difference there. As I indicated earlier, many require a university degree. Many of the people that are looking for positions that aren’t employed don’t have the necessary skills, so now we’re trying to indicate individuals that are close enough to be able to meet the requirements and try to give them those requirements by training them for a year, using their own salary as training money. Thank you.