YEREVAN, JANUARY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. 3764 citizens submitted bids to take part in the 1342 competitions of vacancies in the Civil Service announced in 2005. As it was announced by the RA Civil Service Council, 216 of the announced competitions didn't take place and there was no winner in 150 of them. Last year 1178 civil servants passed certification, 62 out of which were not competent for the posts and were dismissed. For not doing the official duties because of invalid reason or for doing them not properly the corresponding heads of the bodies presented 6 applications to CSC in 2005, that were set going and official examinations were appointed in connection with them. As a result of the examinations three civil servants were dismissed from their posts. In 2005 the CSC adopted the retraining strategy and standards of the civil servants that will be realized from this year. It was mentioned that 5672 civil servants passed the first retraining. The process of the second stage of the retraining will have a more specialized character, that is the civil servants will have retraining in accordance with their professional spheres.

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