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The NSW Public Sector Capability Framework, maintained by the Public Service Commission, is the language of most public service advertisements. The groups are Personal Attributes, Relationships, Results and Business Enablers. Roles that manage people also use People Management. Occupation-specific capability sets sit on top for some professions, including finance and information technology. A position description names the focus capabilities for that vacancy. The application is written to those capabilities, at the level the role description describes.

Administrative and policy roles under the clerk scale are advertised at Clerk Grade 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 and 11/12. Grade 1/2 and 3/4 work is supervised and procedural. Grade 5/6 and 7/8 work starts to own a caseload, a project or a stakeholder relationship. Grade 9/10 and 11/12 work is where panels look for advice, resources and leadership of a function. Above the clerk scale, Public Service senior executives are advertised at Senior Executive Band 1, Band 2 and Band 3. A Band application is short and is read for the outcomes of a division or an agency function.

NSW Health does not put every job on the clerk scale. Nursing, midwifery, medical, allied health and health-manager roles use health awards and health capability language. A clinical nurse specialist application that is written as a Clerk Grade 9/10 policy brief misses the reader. Use the focus capabilities and the award stream printed on the iworkfor.nsw.gov.au advertisement.

Federal agencies also employ people in Sydney, including service-delivery and regulatory teams. Those vacancies are APS roles and follow APSJobs, the Integrated Leadership System and whatever pitch or criteria that ad sets. An NSW focus-capability letter is the wrong attachment for an APS pitch, and the reverse is also true.

State departments advertising in Sydney include the Premier's Department, The Cabinet Office, NSW Treasury, the Department of Customer Service, the Department of Education, the Department of Communities and Justice, Transport for NSW, the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The Ministry of Health sits over the health system. Portfolio names change after machinery-of-government moves. Use the agency name on the live advertisement.

Public hospitals are organised in local health districts and specialty networks. Sydney Local Health District includes Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Repatriation General Hospital. Northern Sydney Local Health District includes Royal North Shore Hospital. Western Sydney Local Health District includes Westmead Hospital. South Western Sydney Local Health District includes Liverpool Hospital. South Eastern Sydney Local Health District includes Prince of Wales Hospital and St George Hospital. Sydney Children's Hospitals Network includes the children's hospitals at Westmead and Randwick. Nepean Hospital sits in Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District. St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, in Darlinghurst, is a public-private campus. Name the district and the hospital the advertisement names.

Clinical applications need registration, the clinical setting, and examples a nurse unit manager or a medical lead will recognise. Corporate roles inside a district, in performance, finance, capital or digital health, are still health-sector applications. They are closer to the capability framework than to a ward résumé, and they still have to show the health system they sat in.

NSW Government vacancies are listed on iworkfor.nsw.gov.au. The advertisement sets the grade or band, the focus capabilities, the essential requirements, and the application method. A common pack is a résumé plus a cover letter, often around two pages, that addresses the focus capabilities. Some vacancies replace the letter with targeted questions. Some still list requirements that have to be met before the capabilities are scored. The closing time and the account you lodge through are part of the instruction.

Write the letter to the focus capabilities on that role description. Repeating the capability name and then listing duties is how these letters stall. Each capability needs an example at the grade: what you decided, who was affected, and what changed in the work. The résumé carries dates, employers and the tools. The letter carries the judgement. A letter written for a Grade 7/8 role can be rebuilt for a Grade 11/12 role, but it cannot be relabelled.

NSW public service selection is usually a focus-capability letter or a set of targeted questions, not a federal one-page pitch and not five old-style criteria of 600 words each. Some advertisements still use the words selection criteria. When they do, answer those criteria. When they name four focus capabilities and ask for a two-page cover letter, the letter is the selection document. An APS pitch dropped into that slot is the wrong length and the wrong capability labels.

Private Sydney employers rarely ask for capabilities. Banks, the large accounting and consulting firms, and technology companies run résumés through an applicant tracking system and then a human screen. The first page has to show the function, the scale and the result in the language that market uses: credit, markets, audit, product, data, delivery. A public sector letter stapled to a bank application tells the reader you prepared for a different process.

If you are moving between the two markets, keep two documents. The employment history can be the same. The profile, the order of achievements and the covering letter cannot. LinkedIn is part of the private market in particular. Recruiters search it. A headline that only repeats a job title is hard to find.