The seminar aimed at presenting to SEC’s working group the use of focus groups for the project on the job analysis and identifying the approach on the application of this method in the activity of SEC’s pilot project.
Firstly, SIGMA expert Pádraig Love in his presentation “Focus groups and their use in the job analysis” gave theoretical information on the topic of the event. Then, in order to efficiently understand the activity of the focus group in practice, SIGMA expert Áine Gray, as well as the local expert Laura Hamidova led a practical task for the participants of the event in subgroups.
Within the project, it is said that as the next step the SEC is going to hold competency-based focus group meetings with the other state bodies of the pilot project (Food Safety Agency, Baku Court of Appeal, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population, State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations, and Ministry of Economy).
The purpose of the pilot project is to carry out the realization of Article 5.4 “Application of competency model in the civil service” of the “Strategy for Development of Civil Service in the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2019-2025”.