158,000 Apply For 1,750 Jobs At National Identity Management Commission (NIMC)

Over 158,000 graduates have applied for vacant positions advertised in the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). The commission had advertised for positions at its enrolment centres across the states of the federation. The exercise is aimed at giving Nigerians the opportunity to register for the biometric identity system.

Sources close to the organisation’s head of Human Resources Department said that the external consultants appointed to manage the recruitment process had submitted the full list of the applicants and were screening them for possible interview.

The sources said a computer-based test would be administered to the shortlisted applicants before the principles of merit, federal character, catchment area, and spread are applied. The preliminary report of the consulting firm also showed that there were from 100 per cent to 1,000 per cent over- subscription in each of the over 94 job functions advertised.

It was gathered that the number could have been more had those who had difficulties in filling the form been able to do so before the close of the application. The online application system is a test process which was adopted to deliberately test the IT usage and competency of the applicants.

Those who are unable to fill the simple online application form might not be able to sit for the test, let alone pass the computer-based aptitude test, so it will be difficult to employ them now that the commission is in a hurry to kick off the nationwide enrolment process come April 2013.

Source Leadership Newspaper