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

Page 45 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 refresh my memory, but that’s what we do. So at all times we ensure that – and the line manager is involved in the short listing of candidates. … A: … So we would go through, if say we have fifteen candidates who we think are suitable, we send those to the line manager; the line manager goes through and say I would want to see this set of persons. If its for like the technicians, we have a process around that: there’s a test that they do before they are even selected for interviews. So like the technician category and stuff like that, they do an exam; based on the result from that exam they would say okay, we would short list these persons for interview and follow up the process. There is also a very strict medical that has to be completed, so recruitment sometimes take two to three months to complete because we have to send some specimens overseas for assessment as well . What we try not to do is to employ anyone without those being completed. There is one or two times when the doctor would give you – and we have an external doctor who assesses and says we could go ahead if there is an urgent need for the resource, and complete the medical. We try to limit that as much as possible because you know when you start a process and have someone start working and they have adverse health, it might be extremely difficult to terminate the employment at that point in time.