Conferment of CES Eligibility

September 5, 1996 REVENUE MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 43-96 SUBJECT : Conferment of CES Eligibility TO : All Internal Revenue Officers and Others Concerned For the information and guidance of all revenue officers and employees, quoted hereunder is the Career Executive Board Memorandum dated August 15, 1996 to all Incumbents of CES Positions: "We would like to clarify a possible confusion which the recently announced Career Service Examination may have created. The screening process for conferment of CES eligibility, which will qualify you for appointment to a rank in the CES and which will give you security of tenure, is still the four-stage examination prescribed by the CES Board. The four-stage process consists of: 1) MATB, 2) Assessment Center, 3) Validation of on-the-job performance; and, 4) Final interview with a Board member. A candidate is conferred CES eligibility after successfully passing the four stages. Officially, he becomes a CES eligible upon conferment by the Board en banc. Because CESD eligibility gives officials the security of tenure and protects them from the instabilities brought about by periodic changes in political leadership, we would like you to know that your Board is doing everything possible to accelerate the eligibility process. We would like to provide you with all the avenues to acquire this eligibility. Thus, we have reviewed our screening policies and fine-tuned our procedures to shorten the period of completing the process without sacrificing its quality. We are conducting a MATB exclusively for you every year and the Secretariat has written to each of you enjoining you to take the MATB. We have exempted senior lever CES incumbents from the Assessment Center (AC) upon a study on AC performance revealed that this group has a very high 91% passing rate. We have made internal structural adjustments in the Secretariat to create a pool of full-time validators whose lone tasks to conceal validation interviews. For the last stage of the process, we would like to assure you that we have committed a number of days of our time exclusively for interviewing those of you who make it the last stage so that those found deserving will get their eligibility as soon as possible. After all, we have only eighteen months or so left to do our homework of insuring that majority of you who are qualified are secure come a new administration. Finally, the Board reiterates that the four-stages screening system remains the only process for acquiring CES eligibility. No other examination shall be recognized by your Board as equivalent to the examination for CES eligibility. CORAZON ALMA G. DE LEON Chairman CARMENCITA T. ABELLA ROMEO B. OCAMPO Member Member JOSE T. PARDO SERAFIN D. TALISAYON" Member Member All revenue officials are enjoined to give this circular as wide a publicity as possible. LIWAYWAY VINZONS-CHATO Commissioner of Internal Revenue