Federal Public Service Job Advertisements by Fiscal Year

Fiscal-year datasets contain federal public service job advertisements and inventories posted via the GC Jobs website. Each file includes regular and alternate recruitment ads that closed within a fiscal year, with inventory ads spanning multiple years appearing in relevant datasets. Application data is suppressed for advertisements using designated employment equity groups as a selection criterion.

Use Cases

• Analyze recruitment advertisement volume and types (regular vs. alternate) across fiscal years to identify hiring trends.
• Study the distribution of job advertisements using designated employment equity groups as a selection criterion, noting suppressed application data.
• Track inventory advertisements that appear in multiple fiscal-year datasets to understand long-term staffing needs.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the official Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) used by federal HR specialists.
• Each dataset provides a complete fiscal year of closed job advertisements, offering clear temporal boundaries.
• Covers both external (public) and internal (federal servants) recruitment opportunities from the GC Jobs platform.

Limitations

• Application data is suppressed for equity-based selection advertisements, limiting analysis of applicant demographics.
• Inventory advertisements duplicated across fiscal-year datasets can lead to double-counting in cross-year analyses.
• The specific number of rows, columns, and data fields per advertisement is unknown from the provided description.

Provenance

Source

Public Service Commission of Canada, via the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) and GC Jobs website.

Collection Method

HR specialists post and manage job advertisements and inventories electronically within the PSRS.

Time Range

Coverage is by fiscal year; specific years are not stated.

Freshness

Data is updated as of March 13, 2026, indicating recent collection.

Geography

Federal public service jobs in Canada.