Public Swindling Commissions

Manpower recruitment is a very important function. The greatest care at the recruiting stage ensures timely availability of candidates, with suitable qualifications and experience. Since this is a specialized job exclusive agencies are set up in many countries with freedom of operations. In some cases they are statutory bodies. However, some of them exist only in name. They turn into a laughing stock apart from being a white elephant.Let us consider some funny aspects of their operations.

A major aspect is their constitution. Some members are far from competent, experienced or physically fit. Their very appearance is repulsive to the candidates whom they interview. They give the impression that the candidate interviewed is taken to a slaughter house. Though professionally incompetent, their number far exceeds the actual requirements justified by their functions and they have a large Infrastructure with supporting staff.

The job descriptions for posts are rarely prepared realistically. Delay of several months elapse before the advertisements appear and between the advertisement and the final selection. Lists of successful candidates are prepared sometimes after a year and tests and interviews are held with equal delay. The result is that many candidates have already joined other organisations and the selection process has to be repeated.

Meanwhile complaints from the aggrieved candidates and the public plague the body. It rightly earns a reputation of being called a "Swindling Commission".For fifty vacancies over fifty thousand applicants contest and a series of tests more to eliminate than to select candidates are conducted. This is particularly the case where there is large-scale unemployment. The interview sometimes turns into a refined gossip session, judging from the nature of questions and their seriousness.