05 Jul 2007

There has been a lot of talks going around the government's scene regarding the high number of young officers, including of fresh grad status, being taken in. With top level posts becoming vast vacuum space in recent and coming years, left by the senior elites of the early period of national independence, these young and energetic Malaysians are constantly being recruited.

The talks generally revolve around their differences in opinion regarding the seemingly strategized action of taking the young bloods. Some believe that recruiting officers of such young age to fill PTD posts is just not right; the burden of responsibility and power could not be handled by somebody without at least a few years experience in management. Plus, it seems unacceptable to suddenly fill a leader post with somebody who has never been in a non-leader post before. Would you trust someone to lead you without him being an expert in the field himself in the first place?

But those who believe that the high intake was a strategic move would think differently. They believe that the action was executed through a carefully planned study so the Service would constantly be tailored to meet the current national (and global?) requirements. The argument dates back from a few years ago when all of a sudden, the PTD Corps were filled with officers of diverse backgrounds; engineering, law, science, linguistic, and so forth (The majority used to be people from the arts background). The answer to this was a strategic move to equip the Service with the current globalisation trend, where multi-discipline becomes even more important and relevant in a community committed towards keeping the 'par excellence' status deeply rooted.

The same point goes for the current obvious trend of taking young adults into the Service. With the world running fast into the Information Age, and high-tech gadgets quickly replace the manual style office work, it seems even more obvious that the world is in the hands of the young, who are even more experienced with the techie stuff in comparison with the older generation. From this perspective, it is even more justified to take in more young officers who are very IT-conscious; the office management is quickly becoming electronic, and everything will soon go into the internet, making good management relying as heavily on the understanding of the global technological advancement as having years of experience in the job; simply because the nature of working is changing at top speed, and very soon the current office management will become obsolete. Ponder this: Learning how to make the right decision is a management skill that could only be learned through experience. People with vast experience have this ability. But learning to understand the Information Technology requires experience too. And this, ladies and gentleman, is undoubtedly something the young bloods has most experience with.

With the older generation having years of experience in decision making, leadership and other important managerial skills, and the young generation having vast knowledge in Information Technology, it only seems worthwhile to make Barter trades between the two in a fair manner. The older generation would pass down their expertise to the young leaders through mentoring, while the young would serve their top guns expectation which is to uphold and continue serving the nation and its current advancing speed in all areas, by making the Service relevant and able to cater the challenges ahead, which are the globalisation and the IT boom.

And that would certainly make the elites proud pensioners some day.

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07 Jun 2007

Finally, after such agonizingly painful wait for many PTD aspirants, the PAC results have finally come out (visit SPA website). Exactly 1000 PACers have become successful in going through the tough assessment weekend. Folks, you should treat yourselves; you passed halfway through, and thus are already approximately the best 5% of the whole aspirants going through the selection process. You will now head on to the interview stage; the finale of the whole process, after which, as usual, only the top 1%, the very top, cream of the cream, will finally earn their respective places in the PTD community. Surely, we only hope for the best in your journey. We can't wait to have you in the team. Remember, we've been there before. We know and understand how it feels like. Its a beautiful experience. Just get out there, and break a leg.

To those who didn't make it, fret not. In PTD world where we work, there should be no mistakes, for there is no second chance. But PTD recognizes the fact that there is no success without failures. Failure is part of the process to be successful. Thus, there is always a second chance, and a third, and a fourth one, in becoming a PTD. We hope that instead of  looking back and frown, you'd get back up,  set the pace back in motion, and work your way again. That would sound very much like a future PTD

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