Mindanaotoday.com | Civil Service official: Only 1 of 10 likely to pass CSC exam
By: Uriel Quilinguing
Regional Director Grace Belgado-Saqueton of the Civil Service Commission-10 (CSC-10) said this in a forum in Cagayan de Oro on Tuesday, September 13, in reference to the Career Service Examinations (CSE) her agency administers.
Results of the June 19, 2022 CSE held in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Oroquieta validated the region’s past record: 598 of the 5,660 examinees or 9.49 percent passed the 80-percent eligibility rating – way below the national passing percentage of 16.26 percent.
Belgado-Saqueton said they have yet to know the outcome of the 5,023 examinees who took the CSE in August 26, also this year.
“Unlike other exams, review classes are not required,” said the CSC-10 chief and such explains the relatively low passing turnouts in the region and elsewhere.
She said having a civil service eligibility is one of the basic requirements job applicants must possess for a career in government, other than education, experience, and training. Some agencies have integrated competency-based criteria in the recruitment and selection processes.
Belgado-Saqueton said there is no quota on the number of examinees, contrary to statements posted online, though she admitted they had trimmed from 25 to nine persons in every room of designated testing centers.
This, she said, is to ensure safe distancing) which they have to comply to protect the examinees and those administering the exams from Covid-19 infections. The CSC cannot just add rooms and hire more proctors.
“These exams are open so we cannot prevent those from other regions,” said the CSC-10 head, the same is true in other regions.
Belgado-Saqueton also disclosed that 95,815 authorized positions in government agencies and controlled corporations, state colleges and universities, and local governments in Northern Mindanao have been filled up.
She said they have nothing to do with the vacant positions because this is the lookout of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), based on the Compensation and Position Classification System under Republic Act No. 6758.
Last school year, the Department of Education-10 posted 2,738 vacancies and ranked 8th among 17 regions: 1,507 teaching items, 411 teaching-related, and 820 non-teaching.
The 95,815 filled up items in the region are among the 1,899,747 approved staffing of the DBM for fiscal year 2022, but 177,994 of these are unfilled.
Filling-up these vacancies – estimated at 180,000 in 2020 – in the government bureaucracy was one of the campaign promises of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
The CSC marks its 122nd anniversary on Monday, September 19. (UCQ | MT)
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