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Page 96 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 Graduate Degree in Human resource Management/Management Studies or equivalent qualifications. If you were given this job description and a candidate was presented to you with a first degree, would your rating be excellent? A: No. Q: Given all the other factors, would your rating be excellent? A: It wouldn’t be. I mean as an academic person that comes first. It doesn’t matter how you present yourself; it doesn’t matter your experience unless you have that sort of allocation made. As an academic person if the academic qualifications are Masters, Graduate Level, it has to be. If it is not at that level, you cannot be an excellent candidate. Q: I am just going to show you the job description, just briefly look at the knowledge and competencies levels. [Documents passed to witness] That’s the job description for the Human Resource Manager; the job description for the position of which you were a member of the panel, and as you have pointed out, as an academic, if you were shown that, education could never be excellent? A: No.