The effectiveness of employee's selection process at Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri (SUK), Perlis / Atifah Izyani Ramli, Intan Noor Ain Ahmad Dahari and Safinar Mohamed Sabri

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of employee's selection process in government sector. The aim of this study was to gain an understanding the effectiveness of employee's selection process at Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri (SUK), Perlis. Data was collected from a population of 98 employees who worked in SUK. The 13 agencies under SUK involved in this study were Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri (SUK), Jabatan Pertanian, Jabatan Pengawalan Vektor, Pejabat Tanah Dan Galian, Pejabat Haiwan and Jabatan Pengairan Dan Saliran. All employees at various levels of positions who in SUK with less than 3 years' experience were involved in this study. Questionnaires were distributed personally to the 98 newly recruited employees in SUK. All 98 questionnaires (I 00% return rate) were completed and returned. The findings indicated that the SUK faced some problems during its selection process such as the candidates did not have good qualifications and lacking in experience. In order to solve this problems, the researchers suggest that SUK needs to review its salary and benefits, improve on it's working conditions, provide better pay, better recognition, employed better qualified staff and practise better management.