REDACTED 2 - IC Petrojam Investigation - Recruitment and Parties October 18, 2019 final

Page 44 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 persons who probably we would have had – sometimes we do have persons who we would have been on a training program because you see them as potentials to fill certain roles; so we look at those. If not, we advertise internally for a minimum of two weeks. If it’s a role that we think we might not find internally we advertise externally at the same time; its done concurrently. … Q: From that process now you would have a cadre of candidates. A: Yes, we have a cadre of candidates. Applications don’t come – we have an e-mail address that it goes to, the employment officer, so we would have an HR officer who deals with employment. That person would go through, do the short listing and when they have come – as a matter of fact they would discuss with the line manager before it even comes to me as to who they would short list for interview purposes . If it’s a high level employee they are looking for, I would be involved in the interview process but outside of that the employment officer manages the recruitment process. If they think that they need to do a second interview, I might be brought in for the second interview. Q: And that is the accepted procedure that was in place. A: Yes, that was in place, and we would have the policy that would guide us. If I am not giving you as clear on the policy, you have the policy we can share just so I can