CSB applicants increased by 7.6 per cent

AMMAN — The total number of applications submitted to the Civil Service Bureau (CSB) reached 455,604, compared with 423,597 applications for the previous year, with an annual cumulative increase of 7.6 per cent, the bureau announced on Tuesday.

President of the CSB Sameh Nasser, during a press conference, said that the requests will be used to fill vacancies in ministries, government departments and institutions, administrative and technical jobs in universities, university hospitals, municipalities, the Greater Amman Municipality, the Higher Council for Science and Technology and its scientific centres for this year, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

Thirty-six per cent of applications were from males and 64 per cent were from females. Eighty-six per cent were from university graduates, and 14 per cent were from diploma holders.  

A total of 136,890 applicants are subscribers in the social security database, 30 per cent of whom work in the private sector or voluntary subscribers, of whom 27,103 of these receive salaries of more than JD600.

He said job applicants can inquire about their competitive roles for the current year through the CSB website (www.csb.gov.jo), or the National Contact Centre at 5008080.

Nasser stressed that the government’s ability to appoint is limited, as the percentage of total appointments is about 10-12 per cent of the annual number of graduates, and less than 2 per cent of the total cumulative applicants, as about 70,000 students graduate each year from community colleges and universities.  

Because of this, the government must encourage entrepreneurship and encourage youth to engage in the labour market and develop their skills, he added.

He added that the CSB suspended 10,069 applications because the applicants already had jobs in the civil and military public sector, with the exception of workers with temporary jobs or those appointed after the issuance of the competitive statement for 2021. 

The bureau had a total of 4,508 vacant jobs in 2021, of which 2,445 jobs were appointed. Work is underway to appoint about 2,063 vacancies, Petra reported. 

The CSB announced a list of specialisations from which new applications will not be accepted, which will be published on the Diwan website. Nasser said 4,721 students already registered in these specialisations for the academic year 2020-2021 and beyond, so their applications will not be accepted.

The number of new requests for humanitarian cases reached 6,579, and the number of requests for persons with disabilities reached 1,672 requests, or 24 per cent of the total new humanitarian requests.