jobs.nsw update

10 March 2009

The Department of Commerce, which manages the Government recruitment website, jobs.nsw, has announced new arrangements for the advertising of State Government positions on the internet.

Commerce Director General Graeme Head said the existing site, which was the target of a security breach in December last year, would not be reinstated.

"In December last year the NSW government released a tender for a new recruitment system, and we are now confident that the delivery of this is on track for completion later this year." he said.

"Given that any reinstatement of the existing system would only be short-term, we have decided to continue with the interim arrangements put in place following the unauthorised access.

"This will ensure that taxpayers don't pay to rebuild a site that will only be operating for a relatively short period of time.

"The focus now is on the new site which will have greatly improved functionality and its design will incorporate the findings of the independent investigation in to last year's unauthorised access." Mr Head said.

In December 2008, the jobs.nsw website was unlawfully accessed and site users were sent unauthorised emails.

Following notification of the issue, the site was immediately taken down and an investigation initiated.

Jobseekers were redirected to alternative recruitment websites - including seek.com.au, mycareer.com.au and careerone.com.au - to apply for NSW Government jobs.

These sites will continue to advertise NSW Government jobs until the new system is up and running.