ISLAMABAD - The Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) has decided to start inviting and entertaining all applications for general recruitment cases online from April 2013 with a view to facilitating the stakeholders and ensuring fast track processing. 

All applications accordingly for general recruitment in BS-16 and above shall only be invited online through consolidated advertisement No.04/2013 (April, 2013) to be published in newspapers on the first Sunday of April, 2013 i.e. 7.4.2013.
Applications on manual forms and hard copies of certificates, degrees etc will no longer be a requirement. 
Screening tests for general recruitment will now be conducted on bi-monthly basis. 
To facilitate the candidates admission certificates for general recruitment cases shall be placed online on website of FPSC www.fpsc.gov.pk after the provisional acceptance of their candidature and candidates will be intimated about their written test through Federal Public Service Commission website and SMS. Candidates are ,therefore, advised to visit Federal Public Service website frequently after having filed their online applications.  The Commission has further decided that after acceptance of their candidatures:- It will be mandatory for the candidates to bring original CNIC and downloaded admission certificates as well as Original Treasury Receipts at the time of reporting for written test. To determine eligibility of the candidates for posts requiring experience, the pre-selected candidates in the ratio of 1:5 for merit vacancies and 1:3 for provincial and regional quota’s vacancies will be required to furnish requisite documents within 15 days of the receipt of intimation from the Commission.
Candidates called for interview will bring their original documents as well as one set of attested documents for scrutiny and record at the time of the interview.
Candidates, whose documents are found deficient will be provisionally interviewed but will be required to provide proof of their eligibility within a period of 7 days without fail ,otherwise, their candidature will be cancelled.
The Online Application System will offer tremendous convenience to the applicants in general recruitment cases.
They will no longer be required to collect Manual Application Forms and deposit those in the FPSC Offices.
They will also not be required to furnish copies of documents at the time of Online Applications, which may be done on 24/7 basis rather than just within specific office timings. Online applications will have the facility of receiving instant confirmation and will be able to receive SMS intimations also. 
It may be pointed out that FPSC receives more than 100,000 applications each year for over 1000 vacancies.  The launching of Online Application System will streamline the process, providing significant advantage and facility to the applicants and will significantly reduce processing time of cases as well.