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<\/p>\nIndications are that the Ghana Immigration Service bagged GHc 4,231,850 from its recent recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n
The e-vouchers for the recruitment, which were sold in November 2017, were priced at GHc 50.<\/p>\n
A total of 84,637 persons applied to be employed by the service, across the country, of which 47,477 were shortlisted for the second phase of the selection process.<\/p>\n
Only 500 of this number will eventually be selected nationwide.<\/p>\n
This phase of the recruitment process runs from January 4 to January 5, 2018.<\/p>\n
The bulk of the of the applications for this year\u2019s exercise was received from the Greater Accra Region, followed by the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions.<\/p>\n
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About\u00a015,000 hopeful applicants in Greater Accra Region alone have converged on the El Wak Stadium in Accra for the recruitment procedure to enroll into the Ghana Immigration Service.<\/p>\n
The phase two of the recruitment comprised a physical screening and document verification screening exercise, which started on Thursday, January 4, 2018, and will end on Friday, January 5, 2018 with an aptitude test.<\/p>\n
The persons applied as graduates, Higher National Diploma Holders and WASSCE Certificate Holders.<\/p>\n
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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
The use of the online portals and\u00a0e-vouchers was to make the process more transparent and discourage the payment of bribes and the use of middlemen who defraud potential recruits.<\/p>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indications are that the Ghana Immigration Service bagged GHc 4,231,850 from its recent recruitment exercise. The e-vouchers for the recruitment, which were sold in November 2017, were priced at GHc 50. A total of 84,637 persons applied to be employed by the service, across the country, of which 47,477 were shortlisted for the second phase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":388569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[7447,3],"yoast_head":"\n