ABSTRACT

Procurement of personnel is the first operative function of personnel department.  Effective personnel administration is geared towards acquisition, accumulation and stable knowledge of job requirement in each organisation and to ensure that their requirement are met through requirement, selection and placement i.e it is the responsibility of the personnel department to recruit, select and place staff in each section of the organisation. Again it is the responsibility of the personnel officer to determine and locate personnel officer to determine and locate personnel requirement, including qualification and experience in relation to the general personnel policy.

The main objective of this project, is to enable the researcher know what actually recruitment, selection and placement  is all about and enable him to know whether Kaduna State Civil Service Commission is utilizing the principle of recruitment, selection and placement during the course of its exercise because it seems as not all the tribe in the local governments in the state have equal number of officer or filled their quota in the state civil service and if not why.

The chapter is divided in to five chapters. Chapters one comprises the introductory part while chapter two review related literature on the subject matter, chapter three narrated the method use in gathering data while chapter four analyse and interpret the data collected. Finally chapter five review the whole chapters and makes conclusion and recommendations.