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10.
completed.
Overseas recruitment in London has been partially
Interviews of HCS Principals for secondment to
Hong Kong at Staff Grade C level were highly successful and
six suitable candidates have been identified.
Public Service
Commission's advice on their appointment is awaited. In the
meantime Hamish Macleod is now in London working with the
Civil Service Commission on a revised recruitment procedure
for the next cycle.
Manpower Planning
11.
After a period of sustained growth in the Civil Service
over the past five years, the supply of experienced officers has
fallen substantially short of demand. It has been recognised that
recruiting merely to fill vacant posts is the root cause of this.
particular staff deficiency. Service-wide manpower plans are to
be prepared with a view to making more accurate forecasts of future
demand so that more realistic recruitment and training programmes
may be formulated. The Branch is now gathering relevant personnel
data and will assist departments to draw up their own plans following
the model developed by the Branch for the Administrative Service.
The Secretary for the Civil Service is already in touch with the
Topley Committee and will be making a formal submission outlining
the Civil Service demand for graduates in the coming five to ten
years.
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