Abstract
Increasing the efficiency of the public service and the quality of public administration are essential conditions for the successful development of the country. The conditions of the modern world put new goals and tasks before the public service of Kazakhstan. The socio-economic development of the country largely depends on the effectiveness of their activities and the validity of the choice of state policy priorities. In this regard, the introduction of management technologies aimed at improving the performance of civil servants is of great importance and should become one of the main directions for modernizing the civil service system of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the near future. The purpose of the article is a retrospective analysis of the formation of the civil service of the Republic of Kazakhstan based on the best practices of the civil service of foreign countries. In the course of the study, general scientific theoretical methods were applied. The main method for the whole work was the method of cognition of scientific and theoretical materials. When considering the history of the emergence and formation of the institution of public service in Kazakhstan, the method of literature analysis was used; generalization method - when highlighting the historical stages of the Kazakh civil service; logical method - in the analysis of problematic issues.