Employer's Welcome

The 3 ways to use the platform

• Quickfind - You can quickly and accurately identify and connect with candidates who are already advertising their skills, experience, location and availability within the platform.

• Advertise a Job / EOI - If time permits, suitable candidates can also be attracted into the platform, and towards your role by creating a "Hot Job". Candidates who express interest in the roles you advertise are passed on to you for consideration.

• Strategic Networking - Often during searches you will encounter candidates with attractive skills and experience that cannot be utilised immediately. Feel free to reach out to these candidates to create a connection, promote your company as an employer of choice, seek expressions of interest in future roles, etc.

How candidate searching works

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• The candidate search page opens with the most recently active jobseeking candidates displayed first.
• Candidates can then be ranked against an "ideal candidate" by selecting and weighting the desired skills and experience for the role in mind.
• A suggested search structure might include:

- a "mandatory" or "highly desired" core skill

- a "highly desired" or "desired" secondary qualifier to the main skill

- one or more "desirable" or "nice to have" tertiary qualifiers - perhaps a third skill, or instead organisational, platform or geographic familiarity.

• If necessary, additional filtering can be used to further refine the pool of potential candidates.

Advertise your benchwarmers

If you have someone sitting on the bench, feel free to advertise their skills through the platform. order to get your resource out on the open market, you can create a profile that has your contact details but the candidate’s skills.

1. Sign up at www.aukusjobs.com, but use YourNormalEmailAddress+001@YourDomain.com.au as the login, and also as the email that is entered into the profile. (The +001 will be unique for login purposes, but ignored for communications. All comms will effectively go to YourNormalEmailAddress+001@YourDomain.com.au

2. Use Firstname “YourCompanyName” and last name “Candidate 001”.

3. Use the contact details of the relevant HR manager, and do not include a linkedin profile or CV.

4. Include the following text at the top of the Career Summary field – “NOTE – THIS CANDIDATE IS MEMBER OF AND IS AVAILABLE TO BE CONTRACTED THROUGH A COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP. PLEASE REACH OUT TO DISCUSS IF THIS CANDIDATE’S SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE CAN SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM.”

5. Include any other comments you’d like known in the career summary, but use normal sentence case.

6. Include all the mobility and availability information to allow an informed decision.

7. Keep a separate register somewhere of numbers and names in a spreadsheet, so that when a person reaches out through the platform you will know who they are referring to.

8. Use +002 for the next candidate you advertise.

Using the SFIA skills framework

The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) is a commonly used skills framework within the Australian defence industry. SFIA related skills can be found quickly through either keyword search or within skills families.

Option 1 - By Keyword

• The AUKUS Jobs platform has keyword associations between all SFIA v8 skills codes and the relevant skills from within the generic AUKUS Jobs skills framework. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
• To find SFIA related skills simply conduct a keyword search for the relevant four character SFIA code - eg. "BUSA" to find relevant skills for the SFIA (v8) skill "Business situation analysis".

Option 2 - Within skills families 

Using the DSS skills framework

The Defence Support Services (DSS) is a commonly used skills framework within the Australian defence industry. DSS related skills can be found quickly through either keyword search or within skills families.

Option 1 - By Keyword

• The AUKUS Jobs platform has keyword associations between all  DSS skills numbers (in Annex 1) and the relevant skills from the generic AUKUS Jobs skills framework. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
• To find DSS related skills simply conduct a keyword search for the relevant DSS skill number - eg. "2.1" to find relevant skills for the DSS skill "2.1 Systems and Software Engineering - Systems Engineering".

Option 2 - Within skills families

Templates

• Hot Jobs Listing Request (v4).doc - use this template to request your roles be listed on our Hot Jobs page.

Join the Fight

The current processes by which employers and jobseekers find each other are flawed in at least 20 different ways. AUKUS Jobs has accepted the challenge of fixing this by codifying defence industry skills and experience, and creating a more efficient and accurate connection process. This is already saving considerable amounts of time, energy and money for both employers and jobseekers.

Here's how you can help us make the process even better.