Australian Aid __sssnlae Gemma PAHRODF Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (<4 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION = Competeneg-Baged Reerattment SaiseboonForeword Guided by the 2030 vision of becoming Asia’s leading center of excellence for Strategic HR and CD and driven by the mission, “Gawing Lingked Bayani ang Bawat Kewani" (Make every government employee a servantiero), the Civil Service Commission (CSC), through its partnership with the Philippines-Australia Human Resources and Organisational Development Facility, embarked on a project dubbed as the Development and Institutionalization of Competency-Based Human Resource Systems (CBHRS) in the Public Sector of the Philippines in September 2011. The project aimed to integrate competencies in the Human Resource Systems in the CSC first, starting with recruitment, ‘The Commission recognizes the fact that hiring and retaining the best employees will lay the foundation for developing high performing, competent and credible civil servants, As Jim Collins aptly stated, "Great vision without great peopie is irrelevant.” Alter all, an organization is only as good as the people it hires and retzins, The recruitment process is much like lowering a fishing rod on a lake and looking for the best fish to catch. Catching the right fish takes a while, and you might have to Iook elsewhere across the lake. ‘Only a particular pool of fishes will be attracted to the bait, and a sttategy is needed to sclect and reel them in. The Competency-Based Recruitment is the strategy. Not only does it narrow down the selection but il also gives the HR practitioners the appropriate tools to select and hire the right people. This CSC Competency-Based Recruitment Guidebook shares the CSC's experience of integrating competencies in the recruitment process. The Guidebook is a snippet of the CSC's Competency-Based Recruitment, Selection and Placement Process User's Guide. It thus illustrates CSC's recruitment and selection practices and procedures. While unique to the CSC experience. the Guidebook nonetheless aims to be a model in competency-based recruitment, helping agencies develop their own HR practices toward HR excellence. FRANCISCO/T. DUQUE III, MD, Msc Chairman,