During the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration meeting on 30 May 2012, the Public Service Commission presentation, under priority area three (Use our people better through improvements in Human Resource Management), revealed that the Department of Communications has a vacancy rate of 38, 7 per cent in the professionally qualified and experienced specialist and mid-management, as well as in the Senior Management Service (SMS). In addition, the Department had a vacancy rate of 36.2 per cent in the rest of the occupational bands and it was mentioned that the Department had an average period of vacant posts of 31, 1 months which is equal to 2 years and 6 months.