The President of the Civil Service Bureau, Sameh Al-Nasser, launched a study of supply and demand for scientific disciplines (required, stagnant, and saturated), stressing that the cumulative stock of employment applications reached 423,000.

Al-Nasser said during a press conference held Thursday at the Civil Service Commission building: “We need 8 years to absorb the graduates of one year, and the government can employ 8,000 people out of about 70,000 graduates,” noting that the presence of specializations we have enough of its students up to 12 years “.

The Service Bureau defines the required specializations as those in which the rate of appointment among applicants ranged from good to high, and the saturated specialties are those in which the percentage of appointment among applicants is described as being from weak to medium, while stagnant specializations are defined as those that were not requested at all, or demand for them is scarce, and less The rate of appointment among applicants for it is less than 1%. He explained that “

And he indicated that “all specializations of the educational professions for a comprehensive diploma are not required, and the ratio of engineers to the population in Jordan is one of the highest in the world.”

Al-Nasser added that “the employment rate of diploma graduates from the Vocational Training Corporation program during the last 4 years is 60%,” noting that graduates with doctorate and master’s degrees joined the Vocational Training Corporation’s programs.

Regarding universities, Al-Nasser said: “About 100 majors have been canceled at Al-Balqa University, which are classified as stagnant, and there are specialized universities whose graduate employment rate reaches more than 70%.”

He pointed out that “100 job vacancies have been allocated for the top students in technical specialties, indicating that the culture of Jordanian society tends to academic education rather than professional education, and that the Tawjihi student does not necessarily go to university.

He pointed out that “an annual systematic study prepared by the Bureau shows the reality of the supply and demand process for various scientific disciplines, and this study is comprehensive, integrated and distributed over geographical areas, from brigades, governorates, gender, and according to academic qualifications, whether they are university or diploma, and also shows their distribution at the level of disciplines, which is the thing important and qualitative.”

“We have about 200 majors, both from local educational institutions, and we also have educational institutions abroad. All of these majors that we classify amount to about 1,000 majors that fall within 200 major disciplines,” according to Al-Nasser.

He continued: “The reality of these disciplines will appear before the student when registering for unified admission. The reality of the disciplines and the supply and demand process that we usually take over 10 years to determine the nature of this specialty will appear, with the Higher Education Institution Accreditation Authority and its quality assurance. We have added additional information about the numbers of registrants in universities.”

Al-Nasser stressed the government’s endeavor to provide information and indicators so that there would be no justification for the student to register in unrequired majors.

And he indicated that “the Civil Service Commission does not bear responsibility for unemployment alone, as more than 35,000 job applications are received annually.

The following are the most important indicators that emerged from studying the reality of supply and demand for scientific disciplines and comparing them with the reality of the functional apparatus in the civil service:

The cumulative number of applications for employment reached (423 thousand) applications for employment in the database of the Bureau according to the competitive disclosure for the year 2021, which was approved in the nomination for vacant positions in the civil service as of the end of February 2021.

The number of new applications received by the Bureau reached (34 thousand) from graduates of local and foreign educational institutions and from holders of university qualifications and a comprehensive community college diploma.

The number of appointments in civil service departments reached (5,377) for the year 2020.

The average percentage of appointments to the civil service out of the total applications during the last decade (2011-2020) was only about 2.72%.

The percentage of female appointments in 2020 reached about (67%) of the total appointments.

Appointments in the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education accounted for about (92%) of the total appointments for 2020, exceeding the usual rates for previous years, which are often around two-thirds of annual appointments, in light of Cabinet decisions to limit appointments to the Ministries of Health and Education due to the repercussions of Corona pandemic.

In general, despite the limited demand for scientifically qualified manpower, and in light of the high unemployment rate among holders of educational qualifications, medical and engineering disciplines are seen as generally required disciplines. In the rise in the share of medical professions exclusively to about (56.7%) of the total appointments by (46.4% for those holding a university qualification, and 10.3% for those holding a comprehensive diploma) compared to only 20% for the year 2019, outperforming the educational professions (36.3%), which occupied the share The largest for several decades, as for the engineering professions, which are considered a broader incubator for technical and technical specializations, and despite the limited demand for them in the public sector in the current period, the Bureau was keen not to classify them as stagnant specializations as they are technical, technical and applied specializations needed by the labor market, and the degree of need for them is related development and economic recovery locally and abroad, taking into account the link between the medical, engineering and educational professions with population and development growth in the Kingdom, the repercussions of crises in neighboring regions, and the consequences of It has the refugee movement, which justified the demand for specializations in the education and health sectors in particular, and the increasing demand for technical and professional specializations supports the government’s directions in promoting the transformation and transition from the concept of employment to employment.

– Despite all the external challenges represented by the increase in population numbers as a result of instability in the region and forced migrations from neighboring countries, the Civil Service Bureau maintained the size of the functional staff within safe and reasonable ratios, as the ratio of civil servants to the total population reached by the end of 2020, a total of (10.8) million people (2.01%), and this ratio is closer to the European ratios than to the regional ratios, despite the fact that the majority of civil service jobs are limited to the sector of direct services to citizens, such as education and health, and the need continues to provide a sufficient number of cadres in different regions of the kingdom.

The total number of civil service workers is about (13%, 16%) of (the total Jordanian labor force, the employed) respectively, and these percentages are consistent with government trends and policies in controlling the size of the government apparatus on the one hand, and the orientation towards the concept of employment instead of employment .

Females constitute about (48%) of the total civil service employees, and about (10%, 13%) of the total university government employee and diploma holders, if we exclude the jobs of the third category, in which males work mainly because of the nature of the work of this category in terms of services Administrative assistance, such as guarding, driving, correspondent, and typist for various professional and craft work.

According to the geographical distribution, civil servants are distributed (according to their place of residence) as follows: (47.3%) for the central region, (33.5%) for the northern region, and (19.2%) for the southern region.

– (63.4%) of the jobs are concentrated in the ministries of education and health due to the link between the tasks of each of them with the population increase in the Kingdom and the volume of public services provided by these two ministries, in addition to the expansion of geographical coverage for them and the need to increase the number of workers in these two sectors, due to pressure on their services during the past years as a result Due to the surrounding conditions, and the continuation of dealing with large numbers of refugees to the Kingdom.

The jobs of the Ministry of Education constitute (47.7%) of the total jobs in the civil service, while the jobs of the Ministry of Health constitute (15.7%) of the total number of jobs, while the number of jobs for the rest of the departments amounted to (36.6%).

The first category jobs account for the largest proportion of jobs, reaching about (62%) of the total jobs, followed by the third category jobs with a rate of about (22.5%), followed by the second category with a rate of about (14.6%) and (0.9%) for contract jobs.

The largest percentage of jobs for the first category is concentrated in the educational group, with a percentage of (60.27%) of the total jobs of the first category. As for the jobs of the second category, the largest percentage is concentrated in the group of health jobs, with a percentage of (27.99%) of the total jobs of the second category, while the total number of jobs in the second category is The number of jobs for the third category (50824) jobs, the vast majority of which were from the group of administrative assistant services, where the total jobs for this group amounted to (40,310) jobs, i.e. (79.31 percent) of the total jobs of this category.

The human resources group jobs constitute (68%) of the total civil service jobs due to its inclusion of a number of departments concerned with basic and vital services in the country, the most prominent of which are the ministries of education and health, which constitute the majority of civil service jobs, while the resources and infrastructure group constitutes about (13 %), while the public administration group constitutes about (12%), and finally the finance and economy group (7%) of the total civil service jobs.

The number of permanent exiles during the year 2020 reached a total of (5779) employees, while the number of temporary exiles reached (11577) employees.

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