An additional meeting was held by the AHP committee to develop the pairwise comparison matrices based on the discussions, impressions and judgments drawn from the group decision. Pairwise comparisons were first made for the basic qualification, oral examinations and written examinations (hierarchy level 2). Then the relative importance priorities of the respective sub-criteria (hierarchy level 3) were derived. The sub-committee next pairwise compared the candidates for preference against each of the 13 sub-criteria at the fourth level of Fig. 1. This process involved a separate comparison matrix for each sub-criterion. The pairwise comparison matrices for the AHP criteria and sub-criteria are given in Table 2. Table 3 contains selected examples of candidates’ qualification comparisons.