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the CSC would place them without interview. (They have done this recently with ex-employees of the British library.) I think you will agree that this is unlikely to prove useful.
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The Department of Employment does not have any provisions either; the best advice it could offer was that vacancies are advertised through the Employment Agency job centres and this should be the first port of call. The Department does however have a section which issues licences to recruitment agencies and I will be writing to them to find out in what ways, if any, they could help us to produce a list.
9.
The demise of the Overseas Resettlement Bureau and the subsequent lack of a body to replace it may cause difficulties. I notice that Cmnd 1193 states "The Bureau will continue in existence for so long as there is a need to resettle men and women retiring from the Overseas Civil Service and experience so far suggests that the knowledge that the Bureau will be there to assist them when required will both encourage officers to continue their overseas service and new recruits to join it". In the final analysis however the extent of our assistance to HMOCS officers is now limited to the provision of a list of agencies and general advice. There now seems to be no favourable consideration for employment with HMG although Cmnd 1193 implies that this used to be the case, ie waiving of the entrance requirements for age and education for HMOCS members. The only jobs for which HMOCS officers would get prior consideration would be those filled by the ODA in other Dependent Territories. Mr Shipley did mention however that very few HMOCS officers were likely to want to work in the UK after 1997.
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26 November 1990
cc: Mr Stone, HKD
Mr Fish, ODA Mr Shipley, HKG
Gill Coglin
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