The true picture of the economy: 1.6 million applications for 3,000 positions!
1.6 million people applied for the cleaning staff positions opened by the Ministry of Health, highlighting the scale of the unemployment problem.
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The Ministry of Health announced that it would hire a total of 3,658 workers. Of these, 3,170 will be for cleaning staff positions, while the remainder will be for clinical support staff, private security guards, and cook positions.
The recruitment was conducted through the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR), and a minimum requirement of primary school graduation was set for the cleaning staff position. However, university graduates also showed intense interest in these positions.
ISTANBUL LEADS IN APPLICATIONS
According to a report by Deniz Ayhan from Sözcü, the highest number of applications for the cleaning staff position came from Istanbul, with 94,266 people applying. Şanlıurfa ranked second with 71,838 applications, while 57,726 people applied from Ankara. In Diyarbakır, the number was recorded at 54,884. Even in Batman, which has a smaller population, the number of applications reached 44,525. Other notable application figures were 43,341 in Adana, 41,820 in Hatay, 34,799 in Erzurum, 30,443 in Kütahya, and 30,208 in Gaziantep.
The intense interest in the Ministry of Health's cleaning staff recruitment has once again revealed the scale of the unemployment problem. The candidates to be selected from among the 1.6 million people who applied for the 3,170 positions will be determined by a lottery to be held in Ankara on Tuesday, May 27.