Special Interest Group for the Public Sector –Dublin: AGENDA

Farmleigh, Castleknock, Dublin 15, Ireland.

Monday 21stSeptember

13.30: Registration and light refreshments

14.00: Opening by William G. Harris, CEO Association of Test Publishers

14.15 – 15.15Keynote: Michael Emery, Director Human Resources, UNFPA:

If HR is to become FFP (Fit-for-Purpose), then so does the system!

"The UN family has been instructed to remain vital, relevant and able to deliver. For many organizations this means a re-think of what they do (mandate and focus), how they do it, and where they do it (or not), all of which have some very interesting human resources challenges"

15.15 – 16.15 Keynote: James Darley, Teach First, London

James has headed up the Teach First graduate recruitment department since 2004 and has seen Teach First grow from a ‘modest’ recruiter to become the largest graduate recruiter in the UK. James will take us through the challenges in testing and branding he faced to get the organisation where it is today

16.15 – 17.00Stéphane Vanderveken, EPSO and Aoife Lyons, Public Appointments Service of Ireland:The competency based approach: the challenges, the future, the alternatives…

17.15 - 18.15Optional guided tour of Farmleigh Gardens

18.30:Receptionhosted by theMinister for European Affairs and Data Protection Dara Murphy T.D.

Tuesday 22nd September

9.00 -10.00: Keynote: Matthew Poyiadgi, Vice President EMEA, Pearson VUE

3T: technologies, trends talent:

"The world is rapidly changing and technology is in the driving seat. How is technology shaping our future? What are the trends that are making waves and are shifting how we do business? Why are talent and skills the key to our future? Matthew delivers an engaging and thought-provoking presentation which makes us think about how technology is altering how we think, work and learn".

10.00 – 12.30 (with coffee break): Key challenges facing public sector recruiters:Facilitators: Céline Shakouri Dias – NATO and Michael Rosetz – UN CEB

Branding -how to win that war for talent: sharing of experiences, action or projects, student careers ambassador programmes;

Identifying and reducing cost per hire;

CBT – introducing and subsequent challenges for successful deployment.

12.30 – 13.30: Sandwich lunch provided on site.

13.30–15.30: New trends and technologies – Case studies

Internet-based testing (Hong Sok Kwon, Norbert Bromme Anton Botha UN);

Video interviewing (Stéphane Vanderveken, EPSO Walter Hueber, Cammio);

E-Tray (Ruth Summers, British Council & Philp Wilson, UK Civil Service Fast Stream);

Self-selection and self-assessment tools (Aoife Lyons, PAS).

15.30 – 16.30:Roundtable discussions on the following issues: (including coffee):

FAO- Employers choosing to hire external staff rather than using L & D programmes to develop own staff";

NATO - staffing for transition;

SELOR - Testing on location

- Sharing of tests and results

- Optimizing the renewing process of items and tests

- Best practices in diversity.

Council of Europe

- Examples of concurrent/predictive validity studies in other international organisations (for tests, questionnaires, other selection methods);

- Measurement of organisational values – methods (other than the interview) to measure core values (SJTs, questionnaires, etc.) – with what success?

- Performance prediction of assessments centres (any study on the correlation between assessments centres and actual performances of managers, employees).

16.30: Plenary conclusion – David Bearfield, EPSO Director.