News: 48,000 Applicants Jostle for 2,000 Ekiti State Government Jobs

Ekiti State Government – Forty-eight thousand unemployed youths on Tuesday sat for the Ekiti State Public Service recruitment examination to fill 2,000 job spaces.

The State Head of Service (HoS) Dr Olugbenga Faseluka said the recruitment would fill available vacancies in the public service.

Faseluka note that though there were more than 2,000 vacancies, the government was merely filling 2,000 critical job vacancies in different cadres of the service in core civil service, the teaching service, primary education board, hospitals management board, and corporations.

He said the current recruitment was the only major one the government embarked upon in the last four years.

Also, the Permanent Secretary in the Office of Establishments and Training, Mr Olusesan Alabi, assured applicants that the recruitment would be merit-driven and not based on political patronage.

He said successful candidates would undergo interviews.

The permanent secretary said some categories of applicants, like sweepers, security guards and gardeners, would not participate in the written examination but would be subjected to oral interviews because of the nature of their jobs.

One of the applicants, Solomon Olukoko, hailed the government for embarking on the recruitment.

He said it would reduce youth unemployment and boost the economy.

Another applicant, Ajayi Tosin, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination, saying the organisers arrived the venue on time.

She hailed them for effectively managing the army of youths who wrote the examination.

Adetula Helen, who wrote the examination at the Ado-Ekiti centre, urged the recruiting agencies to prioritise merit.

Source: The Nation