Gov’t to launch new recruitment examination for legal officers

The Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) will re-launch a recruitment process for legal officers seeking to work within Macau’s public administration, the newspaper Tribuna de Macau reported. SAFP said it would launch another recruitment examination. The department has been unable to fill current vacancies, as only one candidate out of 500 “survived” the latest exam.
SAFP released the results of a written exam for the recruitment of first-rank second-level legal officers (Técnico Superior naáreajuridica) early this month, Out of the 508 applicants, only one candidate passed. Only 380 took the test, and five were disqualified.
The lone exam ‘survivor’ was already working as a civil servant in Macau.
The new recruitment examination will be opened to new candidates, as well as to applicants who did not pass the latest test. “We are hoping that this group of candidates can repeat the exam, so that they can access [a post] in the Public Administration,” SAFP said.
The Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau also denied any anomalies in the recruitment process, stating it was conducted according to the usual procedure.
SAFP’s deputy director, Mr Kou Peng Kuan, said last week that the government recruitment process for legal officers was conducted in an equal and just manner, even though only one candidate passed the exam.
“We tried to recruit people based on equal, just [criteria], so that they are able to perform their duties in the legal domain of Macau’s Public Administration. Therefore, the demands [of the test] are in line with the work they would be performing on a daily basis as legal officers,” he told reporters at a press conference on Friday.