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Personnel Branch is divided into five sections with duties 

 and responsibilities as follows. 



• Employment: Recruitment of staff, including )unior Forest 

 Rangers; recruiting activities at universities and technical 

 schools; job advertising; transfers and promotions; estab- 

 lishment and complement control; and assignment of quali- 

 fied employees to positions. 



• Classification and lob Evaluation: Ensuring that positions 

 are properly classified and recommending the classification 

 of positions; identifying and recording of organization and 

 positions; ensuring that position specifications are pro- 

 duced; classifying positions under the Delegated Authority; 

 and developing class series. 



• Training and Special Assignments: Co-ordinating and 

 organizing Department training courses; arranging for em- 

 ployees to attend courses given by outside agencies; liaison 

 with Ontario Forest Technical School and Educational Leave 

 Committee; analyzing Department training needs; evaluat- 

 ing courses; and special assignments. 



• Employee Relations: Counselling of employees; improve- 

 ment of communications between field and head office 

 staffs; investigations of problems relating to personnel; 

 liaison with Staff Relations Branch, Treasury Board and Civil 

 Service Association of Ontario; and maintaining Depart- 

 ment program on alcoholism. 



• Office Management: Documentation of personnel rec- 

 ords; attendance reports and leaves of absence recom- 

 mendations; processing nominations to staff; transfers; 

 separations; group insurance applications and changes; 

 merit increases; accelerated increases; salary revisions; 

 maintaining personnel files for all Regular and Probationary 

 staff and Group 3 Unclassified; and providing statistical 

 information at the request of other Branches of the Depart- 

 ment. 



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