Fall 2025 - Student Opportunities in Human Resources

Salary:  $23.27-$37.77

Closing date: 2025-01-22

Reference number: RF-12658

About CSE

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security. Learn more about our mission.

Student positions at CSE are unlike most others. We offer both practical and developmental work experience and allow students to be part of meaningful, exciting, projects, with the hope that they will want to join us full-time following their studies.

CSE is committed to fostering a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. This isn’t just an ideal, it’s crucial to our mission. Find out about our workplace culture, including our diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Become part of our team and you’ll understand why CSE is the most important organization you’ve never heard of.

Job summary

CSE is seeking students to assist the Human Resources Group in support of the different disciples such as Staffing and Recruitment, Labor Relations, Classification. Here is a list of some of the activities to be performed within the various teams:

1. Staffing and Recruitment
• Provide advice, guidance, and support to hiring managers in identifying current and future staffing needs.
• Ensure that methods utilized to staff positions are based on HR principles such as fairness, equity, and transparency.
• Develop HR tools and procedures to ensure an efficient HR service delivery to clients.
• Research innovative ways to recruit resources.
2. Classification
• Provide classification advice and information to clients and participate in project teams and work groups (e.g., drafting of model descriptions).
• Research and analyze human resources policy and service delivery issues, maintain statistics and related reports.
• Contribute to the development of training materials and coordinates and assists in the presentation of information and training sessions.
3. Learning and Development
• Contribute to the planning of activities and programs for learning and career development.
• Assist in the coordination of learning activities.
• Conduct research and analysis related to learning and career development (could include analyzing data, consulting with clients and partners, preparing documentation etc.).
4. Labour Relations and Negotiations
• Provide basic advice, guidance, and recommendation to CSE managers and supervisor on the interpretation of the collective agreement.
• Conduct research and analysis related to labor relations issues (analyzing data, jurisprudence, statistic, consulting with clients and partners, preparing documentation etc.).
• Provide administrative support related to Labor Relations (exclusion, leave without pay process, essential services).
5. Human Resources Information Systems
• Student are needed to work in Human Resources (HR) in the area of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), mainly PeopleSoft (PS). HR is currently using Oracle’s PeopleSoft HR Management System which is the official system of record for human resources information. In the near future, CSE (as the whole Government of Canada) is preparing to move to a new version. The candidate must like to work with systems/technology and must want to learn PeopleSoft.

 

Salary

To find out more about our student salary scale visit the Compensation page on our website.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens.

Location

The majority of our jobs are in Ottawa, Ontario. CSE has two accessible facilities. Flexible work arrangements, including telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible.

Learn more about where we work.

Conditions of employment

A valid Enhanced Reliability Status (ERS) or an Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

For more information about our hiring process, visit our hiring process and security page on our website.

Essential qualifications

In order to be considered, your cover letter must clearly explain how you meet the following education and experience requirements.

Education

You must be registered as a full-time student in a recognized post-secondary program in a field related to the position, such as (but not limited to) business administration, human resources, or public administration.

 

Note: The educational program must be recognized in Canada, and you must be able to provide a transcript from your most recent term. Students graduating prior to, or during, the work term are not eligible to apply.

Competencies

The following technical, behavioural and leadership competencies will be assessed at a later date. You do not need to include information about them in your application. 

Behavioural competencies

·        Cognitive thinking skills

·        Interactive communication

·        Working in a team

Leadership competencies

·        Achieving results

·        Collaboration

·        Integrity, respect and awareness

How to apply

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “Apply” at the top or bottom of this page.

If you cannot apply online or have a disability preventing you from applying online, please inform us by email at students-etudiants@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this selection process.

Important information

The process will be conducted in the official language of your choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to the following designated employment equity groups: women; Indigenous peoples, including First Nations who are status, or registered and non-status, or non-registered, Inuit and Métis; persons with disabilities, including people with a mental health condition and neurodivergent people; and persons from racial or ethnic groups. 

Please note the Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures you require to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates during our processes. Information you provide will be addressed confidentially.

All communications with CSE relating to this process, including email messages and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.