Definitions

 

Advertisement number (Ad No.) – A unique 5-digit number assigned to each competition (posting).

Category – The occupational group that best describes the job.  One job may fit into more than one category (ex:  “management” and “information technology”).

Competencies – The “characteristics” of an individual that underlie their likely performance or behaviour.  They include a person's knowledge, skills and abilities.

Competition (posting) types – There are three types of competition:

Open Competition – Anyone eligible to work in Canada may apply.  This type of competition is used when it is in the public interest to seek applications from the public and when the required skills are not readily available from within the civil service.

Closed Competition – These competitions are not open to the public. Only current regular, term and departmental employees are eligible to apply. Closed competitions are used when experience in government is considered essential to effective performance in the position; or, when the position provides a career opportunity for current employees

Internal Competition – These competitions are not open to the public. Only current, regular, term and departmental employees from a specific department program area are eligible to apply. Internal competitions are used when the required qualifications are specific to the program unit.

Employee categories – There are four employee categories:

Regular employee – An employee who carries out and occupies a continuing function in a government department program.  Regular employees are civil servants and are eligible to receive employee benefits .

Term employee – An employee appointed for a specific term of employment where the term is based on either:  a specific period of time; the completion of a specific job; or, the occurrence of a specified event.  Term employees are civil servants and are eligible to receive employee benefits . 

Casual employee – An employee that:  normally works less than the full normal daily, weekly or monthly hours of work and whose work is irregular or non-recurring, or does not follow an ongoing, predetermined schedule of work on a regular and recurring basis; or, is hired on for a short period of time to perform work in order to prevent stoppage of public business or loss or serious inconvenience to the public.  Casual employees are not considered civil servants and are not eligible to receive employee benefits.

Departmental Employee – An employee of Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation, Manitoba Conservation or Manitoba Water Stewardship whose appointment is designated as departmental due to the nature of the work.  The work is normally of a seasonal, full or part-time nature.  Departmental employees are civil servants and are eligible to receive employee benefits .

Employment equity groups – The employment equity policy recognizes four groups:

Women

Aboriginal persons – persons of North American Aboriginal ancestry including First Nation (status and non-status Indians), Inuit and Metis. 

Persons with a disability – persons who have a long-term or recurring impairment and consider themselves to be disadvantaged in employment by reasons of that impairment, or believe an employer or potential employer is likely to consider them to be disadvantaged in employment by reasons of that impairment, and/or persons whose functional limitations owing to their impairment have been accommodated in their current job or workplace.

Visible minorities – persons other than Aboriginal people who because of their race or colour are a visible minority.  Examples of visible minorities include:  Black (ex:  African, Haitian, Jamaican, Somali), South Asian (ex:  East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan), South East Asian (ex:  Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese), Arab/West Asian (ex:  Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan), Chinese, Filipino, Latin American, Japanese and Korean.

Equity adv. type – There are three equity ad types:

Regular – employment equity is a factor in the selection process if there is underrepresentation of one or more employment equity group in the level, classification, series or occupation within the civil service.

Equity preference – applicants that are a member of the employment equity group identified in the job advertisement are given first consideration. If more than one applicant from an identified group meets the required qualifications the one that is the highest ranked by the selection board will be selected. If there are no applicants from the identified group that meet the required qualifications an applicant that is not a member of the group may be selected.

Equity designated – only individuals that are members of the employment equity group identified in the job advertisement are eligible to apply for the position. If there are no applicants that meet the required qualifications the competition is cancelled and either efforts are made to recruit a qualified candidate from the identified employment equity group (ex: community outreach) or a new competition is held.

Job classification – The classification of a job, based on an analysis of the duties, responsibilities and accountability assigned to a position.  See Classification specifications. 

Job title – The working title of the job (ex:  Policy Analyst).

Job type – When searching for a job type in the Manitoba government job opportunities website, six job types may be reflected. Job types include regular, term, casual and departmental (see Employee categories), secondment and acting status (term).

Secondment – The temporary assignment of an existing employee to another function within government.  The employee remains in their current position and while fulfilling the new function.

Acting status (term) – The temporary appointment of an existing employee to another position with a higher job classification within government.