500 people<\/strong><\/a><\/span> out of the enormous number of applications received.<\/p>\nWhen asked whether the huge numbers are unusual and a security threat, Superintendent Amoako Atta said he could not “categorically say it was” but added that “looking at the figures one may be pushed to say so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the suggestions that the large numbers which gathered at the various screening centres indicate a worrying unemployment problem,\u00a0Mr. Amoako Atta was of the view that because other security agencies including Police and Fire Services are also currently recruiting he was hopeful that a lot more will gain employment in the other agencies.<\/p>\n
The Immigration Service Public Affairs Director further appealed to private companies to employ more Ghanaians in a bid to reduce the unemployment rate in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like a lot of attention is on public sector employment. There are a lot of opening in the private sector but it looks like everyone wants to get employed in the public sector. So definitely recruitment drive in these areas is always on the high. So that will account for people pushing to the public sector or government employing them and government will certainly not employ all of these numbers looking at the wage bill. So if private sector will also open up and take up some of these numbers, it will balance the recruitment drive on the public side,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Thousands of job seekers queue for screening<\/strong><\/p>\nThousands of potential recruits queued at various allotted <\/strong><\/span><\/a>centers across the country on Thursday to take part in the screening exercise within the Immigration Service recruitment process.<\/p>\nIn the Volta Region for instance, 0ut of the total number of 3,928 applicants<\/strong><\/a><\/span> from the region, 521 applied as graduates, 372 as Higher National Diploma Holders, and the rest are WASSCE Certificate Holders.<\/p>\n–<\/p>\n
By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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