Public Service careers microsites (FOI)

​​​Request

This request pertains to the public service careers microsites that have appeared recently, including: 

Health & Nursing Careers in Jersey (gov.je)​

Justice and Home Affairs (gov.je)

Education Jersey (gov.je)​

Please provide the following information:-

A

A list of such careers microsites that are being planned, developed, or are online.

B

The cost of setting up these microsites.

C

When the project was scoped and when each of the new sites went or are scheduled to go live.

D

Any business case documents that were prepared before creating the microsites.

Response

A and B 

This information is publicly available in response to a previous Freedom of Information Request which can be accessed via the link below, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Government of Jersey Recruitment Websites (FOI)

C

Please see below: 

• Customer & Local Services – Scoped first quarter 2022 and went live second quarter 2022
• Justice & Home Affairs – Scoped second quarter 2022 and went live second quarter 2022
• Teachers - Scoped fourth quarter 2022 and went live first quarter 2023
• ​Early in Careers – Scoped first quarter 2022 and went live second quarter 2022
• Health Careers – Scoped third quarter 2023 went live first quarter 2024
  

D

Microsites are a form of recruitment collateral seen as a cost-effective way of attracting candidates for multiple roles. Like all other recruitment collateral or assets (such as subscriptions to Professional journals) there is no requirement for a formal business case as they are funded from within a departmental recruitment budget.

As stated in a previous Freedom of Information response linked above, the strategy for having multiple recruitment microsites was as follows:

Multiple microsites have allowed swift development for targeted areas of recruitment needs, facilitating the conveyancing of the existing employee stories and allowing candidates to directly access to the correct information. 

Microsites have been built for critical roles including Teachers and Nurses which at the time allowed the government to provide a crucial information portal for potential candidates to explore and to convert them to make an application for a vacant position. This is evidenced by the successful campaign to recruit teachers and teaching assistants in 2023.

Article applied 

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.