AI-Assisted Triage for Employer Job Postings

Employment & Work · Risk Assessment & Triage

What it collects

Operational data

Anonymized data

Job Bank employer files — administrative records submitted by employers seeking to post job listings. The register confirms no personal information about individuals is involved.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

Run by: Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Where: No fixed location
Kept: Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with: Accountable organization
Your copy: You cannot see the data it holds about you. What you can do

What it is for

Employment & Work

Risk Assessment & Triage

This system helps Employment and Social Development Canada manage a backlog of new employer files submitted to the Job Bank program. It automatically sorts employer files into two categories: those that can be processed without manual review, and those flagged as higher risk that require a program officer to assess. The system does not process personal information about individual citizens — it operates on employer account files. Government of Canada employees use the system's output to prioritize their caseload.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Operational data

Anonymized data

Job Bank employer files — administrative records submitted by employers seeking to post job listings. The register confirms no personal information about individuals is involved.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

Processing

Classification & Prediction

Rule-based binary classification that assigns each new employer file to either a low-risk category (no manual review required) or a high-risk category (requires manual assessment by a program officer).

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

What it does

Deciding (Analytical AI)

Human decides

A rule-based system that scores and segments employer files into two risk categories. Program officers retain decision authority over flagged files — the system recommends, it does not decide.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

Outputs

A recommendation or prediction

Anonymized data

A triage categorization for each employer file: either cleared for processing without manual review, or flagged for manual assessment by a Job Bank program officer. This is an advisory output — program officers make final decisions on flagged files.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

Run by

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

Federal department that operates the Job Bank program and deploys this triage system to manage employer file backlogs. Government of Canada employees are the primary users of the system's output.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

Built by

Government of Canada

The system was developed internally by the Government of Canada, with no external vendor identified in the register entry.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-ESDC-EDSC-013

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization

Triage outputs are available to Employment and Social Development Canada program officers and staff managing Job Bank employer file backlogs.

Not available to me

The system operates on employer administrative files for internal program management purposes. Outputs are not accessible to individual citizens.

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data: Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data: Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data: The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides: This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes: This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous: This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

Right to a Human ReviewEmployer files flagged as high-risk by the system are subject to mandatory manual assessment by a Job Bank program officer before any action is taken. The system does not make final determinations — human review is built into the process for all high-risk classifications.

Risks and safeguards

Financial & business harmEmployer files that are legitimate may be incorrectly flagged as high-risk, causing processing delays or unwarranted scrutiny; conversely, genuinely risky files may be cleared without review, allowing problematic job postings to proceed.Safeguard: All high-risk categorizations are subject to mandatory manual review by a program officer, providing a human check on the system's output before consequential action.