{"id":87940,"date":"2023-12-07T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair"},"modified":"2023-12-10T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:38:00","slug":"chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair","title":{"rendered":"Chaos As Job Seekers Stampede For Work At PSC Job Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Several young people desperate for work were left screaming in pain and others limping after being stamped on or beaten up by security guards at a Government-organised job event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Service Commission (PSC) held a Job Fair at Heritage Village, Liberation City in Harare, next to Tynwald Primary School, where thousands of graduates were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Irish Examiner<\/b> reported chaos as job seekers rushed to register for potential vacancies, but no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PSC, thousands of young people in the 19 to 30 year-age group turned up for the fair, holding envelopes with their CVs and college certificates.<\/p>\n<p>They hoped to be registered on a database of job seekers in the PSC and Government ministries.<\/p>\n<p>People stamped on each other in the rush to enter a large hall where the registration was taking place and security guards used batons to restore order, but people still surged forward.<\/p>\n<p>PSC Chairman Vincent Hungwe said the Job Fair was a pleasant challenge because of the overwhelming number of graduates that came. Yet, their qualifications proved that the country had excess requisite skills enough to serve in all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary to Service Commissions, Tsitsi Choruma said that the Job Fair served as a timely succession plan to infuse into the Government, young graduates such as doctors, female engineers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Commissioner in the Public Service Commission Larry Mavima told reporters that the decision by the Commission to target the 19 to 30-year-old group was driven by the Commission\u2019s desire to encourage qualified youths to serve the Government and further develop their skills early in life.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe has an acute shortage of formal jobs and millions of people eke out a living by vending and other informal activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Several young people desperate for work were left screaming in pain and others limping after being stamped on or beaten up by security guards at a Government-organised job event on Wednesday. The Public Service Commission (PSC) held a Job Fair at Heritage Village, Liberation City in Harare, next to Tynwald Primary School, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":87939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1493,2189,4333,15883,12654,10233,8273,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-87940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-batons","12":"tag-job-fair","13":"tag-job-seekers","14":"tag-liberation-city","15":"tag-stampede","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chaos As Job Seekers Stampede For Work At PSC Job Fair - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Several young people desperate for work were left screaming in pain and others limping after being stamped on or beaten ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chaos As Job Seekers Stampede For Work At PSC Job Fair\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several young people desperate for work were left screaming in pain and others limping after being stamped on or beaten ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-07T09:11:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-10T14:38:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/12\/sm_1701936573.081927.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"912\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"608\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chaos-as-job-seekers-stampede-for-work-at-psc-job-fair\",\"name\":\"Chaos As Job Seekers Stampede For Work At PSC Job Fair - 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