{"id":388531,"date":"2018-01-04T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388531"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:05:04","slug":"vr-3928-job-seekers-queue-for-immigration-service-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388531","title":{"rendered":"V\/R: 3,928 job seekers queue for Immigration Service screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 3,928 job seekers are undergoing the Ghana Immigration Service&#8217;s recruitment process in the Volta Regional capital, Ho.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants are part of a nationwide exercise by the Service to shortlist both graduates and undergraduates for recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the total number of 3,928 applicants from the Volta Region, 521 applied as graduates, 372 as Higher National Diploma Holders, and the rest are WASSCE Certificate Holders.<\/p>\n<p>Aside crosschecking the validity of their certificates, heights, and weights the stature of applicants are also being checked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-388533 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/V.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/V.jpg 800w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/V-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/V-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Volta Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service, Philip Essuman, told<strong> Citi News<\/strong> successful applicants would be made to write an examination on Friday, January 5, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He said those without valid certificates and did not complete their National Service would be disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>The Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa, who visited the recruitment grounds briefly to monitor the exercise challenged the officials to ensure a smooth and fair process.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, the exercise is taking place in all ten regional capitals.<\/p>\n<p>In all, about 84,000 people applied, with only five hundred needed to be engaged by the Service nationwide.\u00a0Each applicant spent Ghc50 cedis during the online application process.<\/p>\n<p>This confirms the worsening unemployment levels in the country. Some <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/04\/over-15000-undergo-gis-recruitment-exercise-at-el-wak-stadium\/\">15,000 people<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>converged on the El-Wak Sports Stadium in Accra for the screening exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants in long winding queues caused severe vehicular traffic around the stadium area as they waited outside the gate to enter the stadium.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: King Norbert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 3,928 job seekers are undergoing the Ghana Immigration Service&#8217;s recruitment process in the Volta Regional capital, Ho. The applicants are part of a nationwide exercise by the Service to shortlist both graduates and undergraduates for recruitment. Out of the total number of 3,928 applicants from the Volta Region, 521 applied as graduates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":388532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,182,3423,247],"class_list":["post-388531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-immigration-service","tag-recruitment","tag-volta-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/388532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}