Ministry
of National Policies and Economic Affairs – Unemployed Graduates Interviews
According to decision taken by the Government
to call all unemployed graduates for training, or positions as Development
Officers, ads have been put in the papers and interviews have been held between
16th and 30th April and even those who did not go for
them can contact their respective district’s District Secretaries for interview.
The ads are too vague and deceptive
In this website is a list of all
Unemployed Graduates by District in English where some are in Bold capitals and
others in regular format. It is very badly prepared and not vetted for accuracy
either as in the Gampaha district, no 3571 and 3572 is the same person! Surely don’t
we have a public service that knows better than to eliminate duplicates? Then
we have Gampaha no 3586 on the same page, born in 1971 in the unemployed
graduates list! Why? Is this a rough list that is full of inaccuracies? Then looking
at it is a waste of time and don’t have a body who can correct this and only
post on the Ministry website accurate information?
WHAT
A WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY AND TIME – list full of errors
In the same Ministry website is new item
from the Department of Census and Statistics that there are 500,000 job
vacancies, see link below:
In addition to all this, all the
ministers and MPs are submitting lists from their constituencies of people who
they recommend for employment on the grounds that they are party supporters and
the like, to show that they are doing something for their own longtime backers and
their families.
Upon investigating these lists from
Electorates a further anomaly arises, as it is with names of people who live
outside the Electorate, so they have somehow for other reasons managed to get
their names through a particular MP, despite their residence being elsewhere.
More importantly, for the offered, non-permanent employment contract for 2
years, which with a change of government can be immediately cancelled, at a payment
of Rs20K, only a fraction in the lists will take the jobs if offered to them,
making a mockery of this process, and a HUGE
WASTE OF TIME, where those who really need assistance don’t get any help
and as a politically motivated window dressing exercise, positions are created ADDING to the PUBLIC SERVANT CARDER!
1 comment:
The prime minister has requested for a comprehensive list of all unemployed graduates.
What he does not know is that the Public Service is not competent to compile a reasonably accurate list that will be of use to him, to make an educated decision on how to employ those people if they want to work, in jobs they are capable of doing.
Half the people on the list don't want to directed at jobs that are available, they only want jobs for which there are no vacancies, and prefer to remain unemployed in order the get them even on their deathbed, than work on a more lucrative position, especially if it is in the private sector that they have been hardwired into their brains not to accept.
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