Civil Service Personnel Rule 20

Selection and Appointment of Technical Staff

20. (a) When external persons are to be selected and appointed to the vacant posts of technical staff grade (1), it shall be done with the procedures mentioned in the sub-rule (a) of rule 19.
(b) When the posts of technical staff in the rule 16 are vacant and external persons need to be selected and appointed as apprentices, the selection board formed by the head of service personnel organization shall ask for the list of nominees registered in the labour offices who meet the specified qualifications among the persons interview the nominees and, hold written tests and proficiency test and make a list of the successful persons who are arranged in order of their score in the interviews, written and proficiency tests and the list shall be submitted to the head of service personnel organization or the appointing authority.
(c) The head of service personnel organization or the appointing authority shall appoint the selected candidates to the vacant posts in order of their positions in the list.
(d) When the posts of technical staff grade (4) are vacant, the posts may be filled either by promoting the service personnel within the department who fulfil the specified qualification or by recruiting external persons.
(e) When the posts of technical staff grade (4) are vacant and to be filled by recruiting external persons:

• (i) the head of the Ministry and the service personnel organization shall form the selection board;
• (ii) the selection board shall compile job specifications such as required educational qualification,required skills and required number of male and female employees to be appointed and submit it to the head of the Ministry and service personnel organization to get an approval;
• (iii) the advertisement for application shall be advertised in the newspapers not less than one month in advance in order that the persons who meet the specified qualifications can compete;
• (iv) the applicant from other service personnel organizations shall apply with the permission of the respective head of Ministry and organization;
• (v) the selection board shall conduct written examination,interviews and if necessary, proficiency tests after scrutinizing the applications;
• (vi) in written examinations, the following three subjects shall be tested with two-hour question papers:
  • (aa) Myanmar;
  • (bb) General Knowledge;
  • (cc) English;
• (vii) the selection board shall determine the number of persons to be interviewed depending on the number of posts to be appointed as follows:
  

  The number of posts to be appointed	The tentative number of the persons to be interviewed
  1 to 10 posts	persons not more than twice of the posts to be appointed to
  11 posts and above	persons not more than 1.5 times of the posts to be appointed to

• (viii) the persons shall be arranged in the list in order of their score in written tests and interviews, and the list shall be submitted to the head of the Ministry and service personnel organization to select and appoint the required service personnel. The list shall include a suitable number of the persons in reserve depending on the number of posts to be appointed as may be necessary;
  (ix) after the list of the successful persons who are arranged in order of their score and qualifications for the post advertised is confirmed, and when more vacant posts are needed to be filled, the ones in the reserve may be appointed according to the positions in the list;
  (x) the appointment of external persons to the posts of technical staff grade (1) and grade (4) shall be done in accordance with the rule 20 and the appointments to the posts of other levels shall be done by the promotion process.