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Page 49 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 are more likely to move on for interviews. As a matter of fact, at my level I don’t compromise on that. If the standard is 70 percent and the pass mark is 70 percent, sometimes we might have persons who we would have taken on internship and they would have been there and you would have seen how they work. So they might not – I want to be careful how I say this – if my memory serves me right, they might or might not do the test based on how they would have performed, there’s an assessment that is done to say whether or not they would be suitable. What we were trying to do was to have an internship program that feeds especially the technical area because we were having attrition amongst that area. Q: But it would be fair to say that the established policy at least during your tenure was, once the tests were administered, the candidate would have had to pass the test satisfactorily before they move to the next stage. A: Absolutely, and as I said, if there is a decision to be made – take for example, if a line manager wants to employ someone and the employment officer is not satisfied, then she would come to me for a decision to be made . Q: So again the chain would be: line manager, HR officer; you as the manager would not be involved unless there is some special circumstance. A: Absolutely, I don’t influence the process any at all. … [IC OFFICER] : I want to just jump back to the question concerning the panel selection, for example, in recruiting the HR manager, would it be usual for board members and persons external to Petrojam to form a part of that interview panel?