KUCHING: The state civil service has developed a comprehensive career progression exercise involving a multiplicity of methods, tools and the gathering of extensive information to ensure that only the most suitable and qualified candidates are identified and developed for various levels of leadership.
State Secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Morshidi Abdul Ghani said these human resource transformation initiatives focused on four key areas, namely encapsulating recruitment and selection; performance management; training, education and development; and continuity planning.
“The new recruitment and selection system involves five phases of assessment to select the best people from diverse backgrounds in Sarawak,” he said when closing an orientation programme organised by the Chief Minister’s Department and the Centre for Modern Management here yesterday.
Other initiatives also included alignment of individual work targets to both the organisational and state targets, introduction of competency profiling and mentoring programme as the basis to develop competent officers.
Morshidi was on hand to present 117 newly appointed and promoted-by-appointment officers in Grade 27 and Grade 41 with a special ‘An Honour to Serve’ pin and certificates to symbolise the beginning of their service and loyalty to the state civil service.
The recipients have successfully completed the 21-day orientation based on a new curriculum, introduced as an integral part of the state civil service human resource development initiative that provides the officers with the competencies necessary to begin and sustain a successful career.
The programme introduced to them the work system and the state civil service 10-20 transformation agenda and action plan incorporated in the various modules.
Among activities held during the orientation programme were exclusive executive talks by State Legislative Assembly (DUN) Speaker Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar on ‘The History of Sarawak’ and Morshidi who delivered his take on ‘How Government Works’.