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With five days to the close of applications for the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) programme, 141,000 graduates have applied to be placed under it.

The Lead of the programme, Dr Anyars Ibrahim, told the Daily Graphic on Sunday that all the applicants would be given a fair opportunity to justify themselves to be selected into the modules they had applied for.

He said there was a process that would guide recruitment onto the scheme and explained that procedures, such as validation, interviews and other processes, to determine whether an applicant was suitable for a module or not would be followed through.

Interview panel

Dr Ibrahim said the interview panel in each district would consist of a representative of the district assembly, a member of the NaBCo Secretariat, an official of the National Service Secretariat, a representative from a module implementation partner and a representative from the Employment and Labour Relations Ministry.

He stated that the only preoccupation of the interview panel would be to make judgement on the suitability of applicants to be placed in their chosen modules.


“In all cases, applicants will be validated and processed through the interview,” he stressed. 

Dr Ibrahim said successful applicants would receive text notifications on their mobile phones within three days of the interview, explaining that the notification would advise on the next steps: “how to print your Engagement Letter from the web portal”.

He said the system had been designed to be fair to every applicant, hence the need for applicants to be confident that they could make it through to placement without requiring any undue intervention on their behalf.

“There is no protocol list anywhere; do not be deceived into paying anyone for such favours, as there is none,” he advised.

Orientation

Dr Ibrahim said upon the submission of their letters to the districts of placement, successful applicants would be processed to undergo five days of orientation.


“In all districts, the date for NaBCo orientation is from July 30 to August 3, 2018. This shall include a military component on resilience, endurance, positive attitude, discipline and responsibility,” he explained.

He said each trainee would be given a three-year contract under a work-and-learning arrangement. 

He explained that for every four weeks of work, one week would be dedicated to skills development and training.

“This results in a cumulative 12-week worth of core training; in addition to the on-the-job training, every year,” he added.