The need to identify barriers was part of previous PSC tool kits and was embedded in a 2017-2020 ESDC staffing guidance tool. I have spoken to many hiring boards within the public service (for almost a decade) and I have no doubt that most (we can never say all) put incredible effort into creating barrier free assessments. Yet the data shows that barriers for equity persist, The problem is that equity is diverse and will display talent in extraordinarily diverse ways. It is impossible to create a barrier free assessment process or tool that will eliminate all equity barriers. Unless you have boards that understand and embrace that assessments can not be perfect and create feedback loops for equity to identify the barriers you did not plan for, assessments will continue to exclude. It is my opinion that this is the next evolution of DEIA advice that is needed. We have DEIA because we know we are imperfect, acknowledging and leveraging that fact is how we include.
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9moAgree with you Bruce. I also think that the burden of ensuring barriers are removed or reduced from selection processes is often left in large part to managers who lack the time, energy and knowledge to prioritize this. Inevitably, this leads to requirements such as the ones introduced recently in the PSEA becoming a box checking exercise, trying to justify how a process meets the requirements after the fact rather than a meaningful exercise during the design phase of the process and evaluation tools.