By Violet Tay
(Sarawak Tribune; July 1st, 2004)

KUCHING – State government agencies will not be allowed to receive job applications directly with the launching of e-Recruitment last year, State Secretary Datuk Amar Haji Abdul Aziz Husain said at the briefing of e-recruitment and OMR and SPA Negeri 2 forms here, yesterday.
“The agencies would be given access to e-Recruitment to receive and process applications for their own job advertisements.They have been given the authority to recruit and are now required to advertise vacancies using the new format in support of the e-Recruitment system,” Aziz added.

He pointed out that the agencies would no longer need to manually receive and process the job applications and there was no need to enter data manually to speed up the processing of job applications.

The e-Recruitment system is also linked to our Personnel Management system to avoid duplication of personal data of successful job applicants.

e-Recruitment is a system developed under the electronic government programme and is maintained by the Public Services Commission (PSC). Users of the system are State government agencies.

The briefing was jointly organised by PSC and the Information and Communications Technology Unit of the Chief Ministerí’s Department.

He added that e-Recruitment served as a one-stop centre for job applicants and that the system reduces the hassles for applicants in having to deal with different agencies for different jobs. “The primary purpose of this new arrangement is to provide good service to jobseekers in the State,” stressed Aziz.

Meanwhile, PSC chairman Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Hamdan Sirat revealed that over 30,000 applicants had logged in to the e-Recruitment portal so far.

He said thus far PSC had processed 555 vacancies and 78 advertisements via the e-Recruitment system.

Hamdan also disclosed that PSC was in the process of sending SPA Negeri 2 forms and guidebooks to Residents and District Officers throughout the state. He hoped that Residents and District Officers would help to sell the forms to job applicants.