The APS Recruitment Game workshop helps APS employees understand how recruitment processes work and develop practical skills to improve their applications, interviews and promotion outcomes.
Based on the concepts and frameworks from The APS Recruitment Game, this interactive workshop provides participants with a clearer understanding of how merit based selection operates in practice and what they can do to present their skills, experience and capabilities more effectively.
Rather than relying on generic interview advice or application templates, participants work through practical activities, reflection exercises and group coaching conversations that help them approach recruitment processes with greater confidence, clarity and strategy.
The workshop is designed for organisations seeking to support employee development, career progression and internal mobility, as well as teams preparing for significant recruitment or promotion rounds.
The APS Recruitment Game book provides the entry point into the workshop and is often used by participants prior to or following workshop delivery.
Building consistent recruitment capability across organisations
Many APS employees understand their work well but find it difficult to communicate their capability effectively during recruitment processes.
Common challenges include:
- translating everyday work into strong evidence of capability
- understanding what selection panels are looking for
- identifying and articulating strengths
- structuring examples effectively
- preparing for behavioural and capability based interviews
- managing confidence, uncertainty and performance anxiety
This workshop helps participants better understand the “game” of APS recruitment while remaining authentic, evidence based and aligned with merit principles.
Through a combination of facilitated discussion, group coaching and practical exercises, participants learn how to present their experience more clearly and strategically.
What Participants Will Experience
This is not a lecture about recruitment.
Participants actively work through their own experiences, examples and career goals using practical tools and frameworks drawn from APS recruitment practice.
Activities may include:
- breaking down job advertisements and selection criteria
- identifying transferable skills and strengths
- developing stronger examples using structured frameworks
- practising interview responses
- receiving feedback and coaching
- exploring common challenges and barriers
- learning practical strategies for managing recruitment stress and uncertainty
Participants leave with greater clarity about how to approach future applications and interviews, along with practical tools they can continue to use throughout their careers.
What participants take away
By the end of the workshop, participants typically have:
- a clearer understanding of how APS recruitment processes operate
- greater confidence in their ability to communicate their capability
- stronger examples and stories to draw on in applications and interviews
- practical frameworks for preparing future applications
- increased awareness of their strengths and transferable skills
- strategies for approaching recruitment processes more effectively
Many participants also report feeling less overwhelmed and more strategic in how they approach career progression.
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Organisational outcomes
Organisations gain:
- more consistent recruitment performance across teams and cohorts
- improved alignment in how capability is understood and assessed
- reduced variability in selection readiness and performance
- shared language for recruitment and capability development
- stronger internal capability for mobility, promotion, and workforce planning
Delivery model
The APS Recruitment Game workshop is delivered as an interactive group coaching and facilitated learning experience.
The workshop can be delivered:
- in person or online
- as a lunch and learn, 90 minute, half day or full day session
Common Organisational Applications
Organisations may use this workshop to support:
- internal talent and capability programs
- emerging leader development cohorts
- graduate and early career programs
- employees preparing for promotion rounds
- workforce mobility initiatives
- career development and retention strategies
The workshop provides practical support that helps employees better understand and navigate recruitment processes while building confidence in their career development.
Built on The APS Recruitment Game
The APS Recruitment Game book is a practical end-to-end guide for applicants navigating APS recruitment processes, from understanding selection criteria through to interviews and career decision making.
It provides structured frameworks, tools, and reflective activities designed to help individuals interpret recruitment expectations, articulate experience more effectively, and approach selection processes with greater clarity and confidence.
The book supports readers at all stages of the recruitment journey and can be used independently as a practical guide or alongside workshop participation to reinforce learning and application.
It is commonly used by professionals preparing for APS roles, promotions, or transitions, and provides a shared framework for understanding how recruitment decisions are made and how capability is assessed in practice.
