- learn from recruitment procedure followed by Armed Forces and intl. orgs like World Bank
- need to recruit more staff to aid their functioning
- move from negative recruitment (elimination) to positive recruitment (selection)
- involve experts outside the UPSC to get technical inputs
- invest in assessing psycho social profile of candidates, especially for IPS, RPF etc
- conduct exams multiple times a year to give more opportunity to candidates and prevent wasting precious years
- eg. JEE is conducted twice since 2019