This was disclosed yesterday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Afolabi Imoukhuede, who gave the information during an interactive session with the first batch of the scheme’s beneficiaries in Edo at the Urhokpota Hall, Benin City.
“”The recruitment portal opened on Wednesday and 290,000 applications have entered as at this morning.
“”The next recruitment will be very competitive.
He expressed displeasure with the wave of wrong data fed into the portal by graduate applicants and said such problems were discouraging.
Imoukhuede told the volunteers that while the scheme was making efforts to assist them to validate their entries it would not do same for the next batch of recruits.
“”It is a lifeline to lift you out of unemployment and out of poverty.
“”This is a serious business to reduce unemployment and you have to maximize this chance,’’ he advised the youth.
The SSA advised applicants to file their applications by themselves and ensure that the information asked for in the application is correct and verifiable.
He acknowledged the challenges encountered by volunteers in the scheme which were largely caused by them and called on the new applicants to ensure that they did not make same mistakes.
Imoukhuede also said that many of the applicants residing in the rural areas stood better chance of being recruited as emphasis would be on residence of the applicants to curb rural-urban migration.
“”We do not encourage state re-deployment because the scheme is unlike the National Youth Service Corps.
“”Anyone who is not ready to do volunteer job in his state of domicile should not bother to apply,’’ he added.
0 comments:
Post a Comment