Apply Online

Easy access to jobs
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Purpose
Give job seekers the possibility to apply for jobs in the public sector in an easy way which guarantees an examination of all applications in a totally fair way without any possibilities for discrimination or undue preferences to some candidates.

Application functionalities
The system covers all recruiting tasks performed by the Civil Servants Agency. After the first automated screening of the applicants' formal qualifications, all meeting those requirements are sent by the system an invitation to testing. The testing is performed electronically including the checking of the answers and the result is published immediately after pressing the "complete" button. The system then grades the applicants down to the final shortlist of five candidates.

Users
The system is open to anyone that would like to apply for a job in the public sector.
- Civil Servants Agency
- All State Institutions.

Specific Benefits
The system:
- Eliminated previous cost of around 5.000 denar per application
- Provides an easy to use system for anyone.
- Creates full transparency and trust
- The computerized testing has eliminated fraud and human mistakes when checking the results
- Includes voluntary electronic training facilities for the candidates
- Radical savings for the Agency.
- Through the significantly improved number of candidates, civil servants of a higher quality with appropriate background and experience can be employed

Status
- Between December 2005 and May 2007 around 63.000 citizens have applied for jobs through Apply Online
- Around 93% of all applicants use the system.
- The number of applications per vacancy has in average increased 6 times

Realising the relatively high usage of mobile phones a system has been added for submitting invitations to testing and other meetings as a text message over mobile phones.

APPLY ON LINE -ONE YEAR EVALUATION

After nearly one year of using the Apply online system, the e-Gov Project conducted second evaluation process, which covered the whole year of practising the system.
The purpose of this evaluation is to identify whether the system is still providing the foreseen benefits for the citizens and the Civil Service Aagency administration; and What is the general impact of the one-year practice of the system.

For more on this you can download PDF of the document here.

APPLY-ON-LINE SYSTEM - TESTING PHASE

The first testing of candidates, who applied for vacancies in the state administration after the Apply on-line system was launched, was conducted today 27th Jan 2006 at the premises of the Civil Servants Agency.

This was the first time the TESTING module of the system went alive.

All candidates finished the testing and were presented the achieved results immediately after they submitted the final answers.

Photo: Testing of the first candidates who applied on-line

APPLY-ON-LINE SOURCE CODE DELIVERED

The Apply-On-Line system was developed within the estimated time frame. Developer of the application, NextSense, delivered the CD with the source code on Friday, 28 October 2005. IMPACT then passed it on to the Civil Servant Agency.

A small celebration was held in the premises of IMPACT Project. Representatives of all three parties, stakeholders, USAID, NextSense and the Civil Servants Agency were present.

APPLY-ON-LINE TENDER/ CONTRACT SIGNING

The contract with the winner of the tender for development of software for on-line job application for the Civil Servant Agency, NextSense, was signed on 12 August 2005 in the premises of IMPACT Project. Representatives of both signing parties, USAID and the Civil Servants Agency were present.

TENDER - APPLY-ON-LINE, October 2005

e-Gov project selected NextSense for development of software for an on-line job application.

The system was developed within the estimated time frame. Testing was finished successfully, training of system users completed as well as educating the public on the subject.

The CD with the source code was delivered on Friday, 28 October 2005. IMPACT passed it on to the Civil Servant Agency. more....

On 16th of December 2005, the Apply-On-Line system was launced, the first job announcement was published through the system. By the 31st December 2005 14 job announcements were published and by 11th January 2006 502 out of 619 applications were received on-line!! Figures prove that 74% of the applicants used the Apply-On-Line system which is a proof of successfully implementation of the same.

The two documents, Invitation to submit bids and System Description can be found under Documents.