{"id":388506,"date":"2018-01-04T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388506"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:23:52","slug":"over-15000-undergo-gis-recruitment-exercise-at-el-wak-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/over-15000-undergo-gis-recruitment-exercise-at-el-wak-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 15,000 undergo GIS recruitment exercise at El Wak Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nearly fifteen thousand youth from the Greater Accra Region alone have converged on the El Wak Stadium in Accra undergoing a recruitment procedure to enroll into the Ghana Immigration Service.<\/p>\n
Generally, about 84,000 people applied to be employed across the country. But only five hundred are expected to be selected to join the Service nationwide, according to the Immigration Service.<\/p>\n
Ghana’s youth unemployment has reached alarming levels as thousands of graduates pass out from the universities each year.<\/p>\n
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Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Felicia Osei reports that the applicants, made up of mostly unemployed youth are being taken through various stages including screening, body and height check.<\/p>\n The huge number of applicants has caused severe vehicular traffic as job seekers queue from the gates to gain entry into the stadium.<\/p>\n The Ghana Immigration Service on Wednesday cautioned the public to be wary of fraudsters parading themselves as officials of the Service in the ongoing recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Service said the deadline for the\u00a0submission of applications online for recruitment has passed.<\/p>\n The Head of Public Affairs at the Immigration Service, Superintendent Michael Amoako-Attah, said some people are trying to take advantage of the ongoing process in order to defraud unsuspecting applicants.<\/p>\n According to him, the Service is no longer accepting applications, hence persons who attempt to sell application vouchers should be reported to the law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n The Immigration Service\u2019s decision to automate the recruitment process was anchored on the relative success of the process used in recent police and fire service recruitment exercises.<\/p>\n