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Recruitment of Administrative and Executive Officers 1980
The Administration's ability to meet its future
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commitments rests heavily on an adequate supply of
Administrative and Executive Officers.
Recruitment to
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these two Classes has therefore been maintained at a high
level in 1980, the likely intakes being 45 Administrative
Officers and 186 Executive Officers. The present strengths
of the Administrative and Executive Classes are 265 and 1,170
respectively, so that this year's intakes represent increases
of 17 percent and 16 percent
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Recruitment of experienced officers from other
dependent territories continues.
Mr Broadley and Mr Bresnihan
from New Hebrides arrived in October. They have been
posted to Civil Service Branch and Environment Branch
respectively. Mr Turner will arrive in December. Offers
of appointment have been made to another two officers in
New Hebrides and two from Solomon Islands. During his
visit to FCO in October Deputy Secretary for the Civil
Service (2), Mr James So, discussed various aspects of
recruitment of officers retired from the Diplomatic Service.
The Branch has now formally written to Mr Morrice on this.
A trawl for secondment of UK Administrative and Diplomatic
Officers to Hong Kong has been started and interviews are
expected to take place in January.
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