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GUVERNMENT SECPETHFIHT.

Che Sel Use

favourable recommendation,

to

used

to produce favourable

shell companies being references for fictitious

employees.

doubts

A few cases of such ilk could cast serious of the whole selection credibility on the

procedure.

(b)

it

is not

There are a lot of family-owned firms in Hong Kong, and beyond the realms of imagination that the employers' recommendation could be significantly biased towards their relatives and friends.

(c) There

(at were registered companies

Kong operating companies

overseas-registered

business

in Hong Kong,

the end

in

of

Hong

firms

staff" from these companies might

number

of

these

possibility of widely differing assessing "keyness",

there is no practicable way in

which even a modicum of consistency of standard can be

maintained.

1988) 213,515

2,348 plus a place of The number of recommended "key well exceed the

locally

substantially.

Given the

standards

used in

(a)

Under

the

General

proprietors

Allocation and business executives

Scheme business

are

treated

as

group

cannot

one

be

group. assessed

(i.e. employees) Applicants in the former their for "keyness" by

employer (i.e.

given to them.

themselves) or have employer references

There could be difficulties in squaring this situation with the latter group which could have employers' recommendations.

Why are we not ranking firms?

5.

Ranking firms is possibly even more controversial than

ranking people (under

system). the points

This is primarily

because:

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