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Human Resources
Room 337, Clark Hall
270 - 18th Street
Brandon, Manitoba
R7A 6A9

Phone: (204) 727-9782
Fax: (204) 726-1957
Email: hr@brandonu.ca

Payroll

Phone: (204) 727-9705
Email: cloetl@brandonu.ca

Monday to Friday

8:30am - 12:00pm
1:00pm - 4:30pm

Just outside the office there is a secure drop box where correspondence can be left after hours.

Instructions for the Online Component

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Creating a Username and Password

Why do I need to create a username and password?

In order to be able to use the online job evaluation system, you must have a username and a password for the system. This username and password pair is unique to the job evaluation system. What this means is that your normal username and password do not confer the ability to use the job evaluation system.

Okay, so how do I create a username and password?

On the login page, you will note the following text

Clicking on the highlighted link will take you to the Signup page, where you will see the following:

  • In the Email address field, enter a valid email address. This may be used in the future to communicate any necessary changes to the job evaluation system to you.
  • In the two Password fields, enter the password that you will be using for the system. The second field is there to ensure that the password is not mistyped.
    A note on passwords: Please ensure that the password you use for this system is unique. Do not use your Novell password or your email password for this system.

Clicking the Create Username button will create a username for you.

Please note that if you try to create a username which already exists, you will receive an error message that looks like this:


If this happens, chances are you already have a username.

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Logging In

When attempting to go to the Job Description Questionnaire, you will sometimes encounter the following text:

This is caused by one of two things:

  • You have not yet logged in to edit your job description.
  • You have not performed any editing on your job description in some time (about 15 minutes).

Clicking on the Log in will take you to the login page

This is where you would log in. Enter the username you created (this should be an email address) and the password associated with it, and click Login Now.

Logging in successfully will take you to a page that looks like this:

To fill in or edit your job description questionnaire, you would click on Edit your job description questionnaire. This will take you to the actual job description questionnaire, which is explained in the Filling in the Online Job Questionnaire section of this document.

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Filling in the online Job Description Questionnaire

The Job Description Questionnaire page looks in part like this:

Note that there is a Save Information button at the end of each of the sections. This button will save your information to a database so that you can leave your work in progress, log out, and come back later to complete it.

Additionally, there is a Help link at each section. Clicking on the Help link will bring you to this section of the help document.

Field sizes

The following fields are restricted as to how much text is allowed in them:

  • Job Summary (I)
  • Accountability (V)
    • Quantitative data (1)
    • Documented procedures (2)
    • Review details (3)
  • Supervisor’s Comments (IX)

No more than 500 characters are allowed in any of these fields. This number of characters will be sufficient for one or two sentences of 10-20 words, as described in the Job Evaluation sessions that were held. If you attempt to enter more than 500 characters, you will receive an error message upon saving. To re-edit the field, click the Back button on your browser.

In addition, the Duty (II) fields will hold a maximum of 255 characters. This will be sufficient for entering your duty information in point form, as described in the Job Evaluation sessions.

Emailing to your supervisor

When you click on the Save Information button, you will be taken to a page which will allow you to print your job description (see the Printing section for details) or email it to your supervisor for review.

Simply enter your supervisor’s email address in the field provided and click on the Email To Supervisor button. Your supervisor will receive the contents of your job description. He or she will then recommend any changes for you to make. He or she will also send his or her comments, which you will then be able to copy and paste into the Supervisor’s Comments field.

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Printing your job description

You will notice the following text on the pages immediately after a successful login or save of your job description:

What it means

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 5 and up takes advantage of a feature of Web technology which allows a person to define page breaks in a printed Web document. No other browsers that I have tested, including Netscape Navigator 6, allow this to function. It is therefore recommended that you use Internet Explorer 5 or higher. If you are using Windows 98 on your computer, you should have Internet Explorer 5 installed.

Using Internet Explorer 5, you should be able to go to the first link in the list and print it. This should render the page breaks in the right places.

If you prefer to use a different browser, I cannot guarantee where the page breaks will fall. If the page breaks are not in the correct places, HR will return the document. Thus, I have set up four individual pages which should print the document with the page breaks correctly. You will have to click on each individual link, print the page that comes up, then click the Back button on your browser and proceed to the next page.

Please note that if you are using a custom stylesheet, your page breaks may not fall correctly. If you don’t understand what the preceding sentence means, the odds are very good that it does not apply to your situation.

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Logging Out

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Log out of the BU Job Evaluation system

In order to log out of the system, and thus prevent others who may use your computer from viewing or modifying your job description questionnaire, click the Log out of the BU Job Evaluation system link. This will make it necessary for you to log back in to the system to edit, email, or print your job description.

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