AMMAN —
Sameh Nasser, head of the
Civil Service Bureau, announced at a Tuesday press
conference that the civil service exam is receiving more applicants than the
bureau can employ, Al-Rai daily reported.
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Nasser said that the pool of competitive civil
service applicants has ballooned by over 7.6 percent this year, reaching 455,604
cumulative applicants. The bureau can only employ 10-12
percent of yearly applicants, less than 2 percent of the cumulative pool,
Nasser said.
He indicated that 18,800 applicants, or 4 percent of
the total applicant pool, have more than one educational qualification.
Nasser announced that 10,069 applications have been
removed from the competitive exam this year. Of the rejected applications,
1,436 were retirees, soldiers, or their dependents. Another 5,888 applications
were tossed out because the applicants were 48 years old or older, which
disqualifies them according to Article 40 of the Civil Service Bylaw.
About 10 percent of
the current applicant pool, or 43,319 applicants, are currently between the
ages of 40 and 48. 74 Percent of applicants are under the
age of 34, according to Nasser.
The number of applicants registered in the
Social Security database reached 136,890, or 30 percent of the applicant pool, of whom
68,103 drew a salary of more than JD600.
The number of humanitarian cases reached 6,579 and the
number of applicants with disabilities reached 1,672.
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