Civil Service College Reviews

- Management listens too much to the hear-says of the middle management & have very minimal interaction with working level. Information might have been magnified, undermined or misrepresented very easily - Rookies are mainly hired under 1 year contract and if you’ve “performed”, you will be emplaced. However, most of the performance reviews are not based on merits, it is - how well you “fit in the team’s culture”, how “well liked you are by the management”, whether you can present well. - Lack accountability for projects

Turnover at the senior and middle management was high when I left the organization. New Admin Service officers (the "Scholars") could not wait to shake the boat and implement new initiatives to show their mettle in front of employees (the farmers). Office could have been less toxic without certain rank-and-file executives who may have been working for more than 10 years, doing the same roles, throwing their weight around, especially to freshies and new staff who maybe slight senior in position. Coming from the old school paradigm, these senior executives (likely to be their 40s-50s) have a lot of work to do to manage their egos when CSC has managed to attract promising, talented and young officers, to take on more strategic roles.