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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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