Roles and responsibilities

Here are the respective roles and responsibilities for candidates, human resources (HR) and the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC) when it comes to assessment accommodation.

Candidates

• Inform HR of their need for accommodation
• Provide information and documentation on the nature and extent of their functional limitations
• Provide input on past accommodation and its appropriateness

Human resources (advisors and managers)

• Informs candidates of the assessment tools that will be used as part of the application process
• Informs candidates of their right to request assessment accommodation
• For PSC tests, forward the accommodation request to the our Assessment Accommodation Unit
• for non-PSC tests, determines the accommodation on their own OR asks us to determine the accommodation
• Ensures that accommodation measures are correctly implemented during testing
• Assumes the costs related to assessment accommodation, up to the point of undue hardship

Public Service Commission

• determines required assessment accommodation for PSC and non-PSC tests
• provides adapted formats of its tests at no cost
• provides adapted formats of organizational tests on a cost recovery basis
• administers accommodated tests
• provides departments and agencies with guidance and documentation on accommodation
• offers workshops and webinars on assessment accommodation