Civil Service exam is fundamental stage to select future civil servant for government
positions. This selection needs to be able to choose the most capable candidate in
order to reach positive results, meet political and social demands in the institution. To
analyze whether the current method of selection is effective or not, this study aimed
to evaluate the techniques used in the last civil service examination for the
administrative positions in the Federal University of Pará. To accomplish this, the
performance of the recently-admitted civil servants was analyzed assigned for the
positions of public office Administrator, Assistant Administrator and Executive
Secretary in the competence “create document”. In total, 41 employees participated
in this survey, and they were assigned to create a memorandumt. The participants
had access to a computer without internet and with the spell checker off. After
instructions on how to do the task, the participants had 30 minutes to do it. Most of
participants did not show a satisfactory performance in the aforementioned task
despite of the good performance on the multiple-choice questions on civil service
examination. The results did not point out a fair relation between the performance on
do the task and other variables such as training course on how to create documents,
previous experience and formation. The data demonstrated that only the multiplechoice
test and title evaluation were not enough to evaluate the employee’s
competence aforementioned. It is suggested the use of more techniques of selection,
training with participants of this research and the adoption a constant method of
evaluation of the selection process
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