{"id":388637,"date":"2018-01-05T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388637"},"modified":"2018-01-05T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:52:46","slug":"the-huge-crowd-at-el-wak-for-gis-recruitment-exercise-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/the-huge-crowd-at-el-wak-for-gis-recruitment-exercise-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The huge crowd at El Wak for GIS recruitment exercise [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some commuters in and around the El Wak Sports Stadium were surprised by the queues stretching along the road for multiple kilometers that greeted them on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>About 15,000 youth in the Greater Accra Region alone had converged on the El Wak Stadium for the latest phase of the Ghana Immigration Service recruitment procedure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388543\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-15.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-15-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388551\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388583\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The prospective applicants were lined up from the stadium down to the Second Circular Road leading into cantonments.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, about 84,000 people applied to be employed across the country, but the number that were enlisted for the screening was\u00a0 47,477.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388550\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-6-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388553\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-9.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-9-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388552\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-8-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But only 500 are expected to be selected to join the Service.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388562\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-18.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-18-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388554\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-10.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-10-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388571\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-26.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-26-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388572\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-27.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-27-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388579\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-34.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-34-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388575\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-30.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Immigration-recruitment-30-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some commuters in and around the El Wak Sports Stadium were surprised by the queues stretching along the road for multiple kilometers that greeted them on Thursday morning. 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