On the official website of the Presidential Youth Personnel Reserve, the results of the third stage of selection, “Situational Task Solving”, held on August 16, 2025, have been published.
As part of this stage, each candidate was assigned a unique identification number to anonymize the data. The evaluation of the tasks was carried out by three sectoral experts representing public service, business, and academia. Each candidate’s final score was formed as the average of the assessments given by the three experts.
According to the approved selection procedure, 300 candidates with the highest results are admitted to the next stage:
up to 42 candidates in Economic and Financial Policy;
up to 48 candidates in Foreign Policy and Investment and Infrastructure Development, Industry, and Trade Policy (each);
up to 54 candidates in Agro-industrial Complex and Environmental Protection, Social Policy and Civil Society, and Digitalization (each).
In cases where several participants achieved equal results, the number of admitted candidates could be increased.
Thus, out of 679 candidates who took part in the “Situational Task Solving” stage, 309 candidates were admitted to the first competency assessment block, “Assessment Center.” The full list of candidates who advanced to the next stage is published on the official project website pkrezerv.gov.kz.
The passing scores by sectoral direction were:
Agro-industrial complex and environmental protection – 3.58 points
Foreign policy and investment – 3.75 points
Infrastructure development, industry, and trade policy – 3.92 points
Social policy and civil society – 3.75 points
Digitalization – 3.67 points
Economic and financial policy – 3.92 points
The first competency assessment block, “Assessment Center”, will take place from August 22 to 26, 2025, in Astana, at the Academy of Public Administration under the President. This stage is aimed at identifying and evaluating specific competencies of candidates through a set of behavioral indicators.
All candidates admitted to the first competency assessment block must select the date and time of participation in their personal account by 23:59 on August 21, 2025 (Astana time).