Azerbaijan, Baku, June 23 / Trend K.Zarbaliyeva /
Interest in public service increased in Azerbaijan compared to previous years, Chairman of the Public Service Commission under the Azerbaijani President Bahram Khalilov told Trend.
If earlier citizens appealed to the public service organs to get job here and searched for all sorts of ways for this end, today the only way to receive job in the public service is a transparent and objective centralized competition, Khalilov said.
According to Khalilov, the public service had always been an attractive field of activity in Azerbaijan.
"Compared to the private sector, people working in the public service are more protected from the social point of view. Persistence of the public service and pension insurance of civil servants are attractive factors. In addition, we have excellent legislation aimed at social welfare of the civil servants. As a result, the number of applicants for the job in the public service doubled," Khalilov said.
There were made some changes to the system because of the slight interest to the vacant posts in the public service in the country's regions in recent years, he added.
Thus, innovations in the rules of the competition create a fertile ground for occupying the vacant posts in the districts.
"Our commission holds reception for the posts of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth classifications. There is a huge difference in the positions, requirements for specialized knowledge, the conditions of service, salary, responsibility, importance and complexity of work between the sixth and ninth classification. Before the introduction of innovations, the pass limit for all classifications was 80 points and that was the reason why the most of the posts in the eighth and ninth classifications remained vacant. Under the new rules pass mark for these classifications was decreased to 70 points. In addition, if the candidate applying for the post-sixth classification will not be able to get 80, but more than 70 points, then the candidate will be able to take part in the competition for the ninth position classification," Khalilov said.
He said in the last competition candidates, who appealed for the sixth classification, scored not 80, but 70 points, applied for the post ninth classification.
"90 percent of candidates, who passed the sixth classification and scored 70 points, applied for the post ninth classification. Thus, we will achieve occupation of the majority of vacant posts," Khalilov said.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev declared June 23 - the Professional Holiday of Civil Servants upon his order dated May 25, 2006.
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