On 1 October 2024, we adopted a new assessment framework called Success Profiles which evaluates candidates against a range of criteria, using a variety of different assessment types.

The Success Profiles Framework is flexible and allows candidates to showcase their suitability for a role in different ways, helping us to identify the best candidate for the role and ensuring we meet our commitment to recruiting a diverse workforce.

The Success Profiles Framework includes five key elements on which candidates are assessed:

• Technical skills – the demonstration of specific professional skills, knowledge or qualifications.
• Behaviours – the actions and activities that people do which result in effective performance in a job.
• Strengths – the things we do regularly, do well and that motivate us.
• Ability – the aptitude or potential to perform to the required standard.
• Experience – the knowledge or mastery of an activity or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.

The elements selected for assessment depend on the role and candidates are not required to demonstrate all of them. You can find the specific elements required for each vacancy on the job advert, in the Success Profile section. We will be using a combination of Behaviours, Experience and Technical Skills to recruit for roles in the Scottish Government.

View the framework

We have created a new Success Profiles Guide with all of the information you need to make a successful application using the framework.

Vacancies advertised before 1 October 2024, use our previous assessment framework, Skills for Success. Use of this framework will be phased out as vacancies before October progress and conclude.

Candidates who have an application in progress can find out more about Skills for Success in our Candidate Guide.