What can AI do in this round?
Disclose the permitted help and explain how you checked the result.
The question
You apply for a fictional archives assistant role in Canada’s federal public service. The hiring team asks you to rewrite a public notice.
- SaturdayThe reading room is closed for one day.
- Other accessWeekday visits and online services continue as usual.
Use the provided AI assistant only to suggest headlines. Write the body yourself. If you use the assistant, identify it and quote the heading you kept. Keep any protected assessment material within the supplied system.
- AReading room hours this week
- BAll services move online
“What do you submit, and how will you explain your check if asked?”
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A strong answer, step by step
Open each step in turn. This is one strong answer, not the only one.
Step 1: What may the assistant help with?
What would you do here? Open the move you’d make.
Use the supplied assistant for headlines only
The strong move. The written instructions allow this use.
Ask for the full notice and edit the result
Tempting, but it misses something. The assessment requires you to write the body.
Send the assessment materials to another AI service
Tempting, but it misses something. The invitation limits both the tool and how you handle protected material.
See how a strong candidate says it
“It can suggest headlines for this written exercise. I’ll write the notice body from the public schedule.”
Why it works: The invitation names the activity, tool and permitted contribution.
Step 2: Which heading can you keep?
What would you do here? Open the move you’d make.
Keep A and disclose the exact contribution
The strong move. A describes the scope of the notice. The disclosure follows the instructions.
Keep B because it sounds more decisive
Tempting, but it misses something. The record says weekday visits continue. B claims a wider change.
Keep A and say only that you used AI
Tempting, but it misses something. The instructions also ask for the retained wording.
See how a strong candidate says it
“I used the provided assessment assistant for headings and kept “Reading room hours this week.” I wrote the notice body from the public schedule.”
Why it works: One suggestion matches the record. The disclosure identifies the tool and the retained heading.
Step 3: What changes in the next round?
A new invitation schedules a live follow-up. It requires independent answers without AI or outside assistance. The panel will ask how you checked the public notice.
What would you do here? Open the move you’d make.
Keep the disclosure and prepare to answer unaided
The strong move. This follows the instructions for both rounds.
Open the assistant during the panel because it helped before
Tempting, but it misses something. The new round requires independent answers.
Remove the disclosure now that the panel bars AI
Tempting, but it misses something. The later rule does not change what you used or disclosed in the written round.
See how a strong candidate says it
“I’ll keep my written disclosure and prepare to explain the schedule check in my own words. I’ll answer the panel independently.”
Why it works: The written task permitted limited help. The follow-up has its own instructions.
Step 4: How did you check your answer?
What would you do here? Open the move you’d make.
Explain which schedule facts support the answer
The strong move. It shows how you checked the assistant’s suggestion.
Say the assistant confirmed the schedule
Tempting, but it misses something. You need to explain your own verification.
Describe only the prompt you used
Tempting, but it misses something. The panel asked how you checked the notice.
See how a strong candidate says it
“I checked the schedule. The reading room is closed on Saturday, and weekday visits and online services continue. I rejected “All services move online” because the schedule only changed one day of reading-room access.”
Why it works: You can show the source you used, the unsupported claim you rejected and your own reasoning.
The answer, in short
- Decision
- Disclose the supported heading and explain the schedule check independently.
- Because
- The written task allowed the supplied assistant for headlines. The live invitation requires independent answers.
- What would change it
- A different written instruction could permit a different contribution. Check the invitation before you use a tool.
Common traps
- Carrying permission into a different round.
- Disclosing a tool without naming what it contributed.
Check your answer
- What did the written invitation permit?
- Which heading matches the record?
- What did you disclose?
- How did you check the rejected claim?
Last reviewed Nov 11, 2026