Examples of using Text processing units in English and their translations into Arabic
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Computer
Text Processing Units.
Current and projected vacancies in text processing units.
Personnel in the Office of Conference and Support Services text processing units will need specialized WordPerfect training focusing on formatting, graphics and desktop publishing skills.
The projection of retirements is based on IMIS data oron the average retirement age for General Service staff in the Text Processing Units calculated at 60.2 years.
It was to be hoped that all text processing units would be able to enhance their efficiency and achieve economies in the presentation of documents in new formats after securing new computer equipment and programmes in the coming 12 months.
A Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units only. VI.
The Office of Human Resources Management, with the cooperation of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, should pursue a multitude of proactiverecruitment strategies to fill posts in the Headquarters Text Processing Units.
Much experience was gained with other new methods, such as using the text processing units to proofread externally translated material at the United Nations Office at Vienna by using an internal checklist to verify the fidelity of the translation.
The General Assembly had requested the study in order to reassess the determination made in 1975 that recruitment from outside the area of theduty station was necessary to staff text processing units.
While OIOS is not in a position to carry out the testingrequired to determine suitability of candidates for employment in the Text Processing Units, information on the local labour market gathered through the means mentioned above is indicative of the availability of skills.
Data analysed by OIOS indicates that the local labour market may have the skills required tofill posts expected to become vacant in the Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian Text Processing Units.
This projection is based on the assumptionthat all posts in the Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units would be filled locally starting in 2005, which is contingent on the local availability of qualified candidates at the time when currently employed staff retire.
There was enough data to indicate that the skills required to fill posts expected to become vacant in the Arabic, Chinese, French,Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units were likely to be found in the local market.
Since 68 per cent of the 304 staff in the General Service categoryreceiving international benefits are working in Text Processing Units of New York and Geneva, OIOS focused the study on personnel with the skills required for employment in these units.1 OIOS reviewed the current rules governing local recruitment and its consequences.
The United Nations Office at Geneva conducted such an outreach campaign and concluded that candidates with sufficient skills were available and, therefore,recruits staff in the General Service category for the Text Processing Units locally.
Under the current interpretation of the Staff Rules, international benefits are granted to candidates for positions in the Arabic, Chinese, French,Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units even when they are recruited from and live in the local areas, unless they are nationals or permanent residents of the country of the duty station.
The General Assembly may wish to provide guidance on whether further study should be made to determine conclusively if recruitment from outside the area of the duty station isnecessary to meet the staffing needs of the Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units.
OIOS analysis has shown that between 33 per cent and 100 per cent of Editorial Clerks recruited between 2000 and 2003 for the Arabic,Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units were recruited in New York and without recruitment travel upon appointment.
OIOS recommends that a multitude of proactive recruitment strategies be pursued in New York, testing efforts increased and the outcome of the enhanced recruitment effort systematically analysed toreach a definitive determination on the availability of the skills for the Text Processing Units.
The Office of Human Resources Management should systematicallydocument the outcome of enhanced recruitment efforts for the Text Processing Units at Headquarters, tracking the number of applicants, the number of tests, the number of successful candidates as well as the ratio of applicants vs. successful candidates for each language(para. 26)(MC-04-002-06).
In 2000, when the local salary survey took place for the General Service and related categories in New York, an informal survey of the comparator employers was made in anattempt to see if the jobs comparable with posts in the text processing units could be found among the comparators.
Under the current interpretation of the Staff Rules,international benefits were granted to candidates for positions in the Text Processing Units other than the English Unit even when the lived in, and were recruited from, the local area, unless they were nationals or permanent residents of the country.
The General Assembly may wish to take note of the present report and to provide guidance on whether further study should be made to determine conclusively if recruitment from outside the area of the duty stationis necessary to meet the staffing needs of the Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish text processing units.
The Organization is challenged by a spike in expected retirements over the next three years(an estimated 36 staff members in the Arabic, Chinese, French,Russian and Spanish Text Processing Units will have reached the average retirement age for General Service staff in the Units by 2008), which will require swift action in identifying new candidates in the local labour market.
Following the recommendations of the OIOS report, a targeted recruitment campaign was launched jointly by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management and the Office of Human Resources Management in 2005 to determine the availability of the required skills in the local labour market andto build the roster of qualified candidates for the anticipated vacancies in text processing units.
The study, conducted within existing resources, reconfirms the availability of qualified candidates from the local market for the English Text Processing Unit, but could not conclusively determine if qualified candidates for the text processing units of the other five official languages(Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) were available locally in sufficient numbers to meet the staffing needs of the Secretariat.
Arabic Text Processing Unit.
Chinese Text Processing Unit.
English Text Processing Unit.
French Text Processing Unit.