Employment Kerala Frequently Asked Questions

Organization : Kerala National Employment Service
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Employment Kerala Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the historical development of the Department of Employment Service?
Ans:
(a) The Employment Service was started as a resettlement agency for the demobilized service personnel and discharged war workers under the Directorate General of Resettlement & Employment (DGR&E), Government of India in July 1945 and Employment Exchanges were gradually opened in several parts of the country.

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(b) In 1947, consequent upon the partition of the country, the Employment Exchanges were called upon to deal with the resettlement of a large number of persons who were displaced as a result of partition. As a result, Employment Exchanges were thrown open to all categories of applicants by early 1948. Thus a resettlement agency was transformed as an all India placement agency.

(c) Based on the recommendations of the Training and Employment Services Organization Committee’, headed by Sri: Shiva Rao, the day-to-day administration of the organization was handed over to the State Governments with effect from 1st November 1956.

(d) The Employment Service is now the joint concern of the Central and State Governments. The administrative control of the department is by the State Government.

To ensure the uniformity in the functioning of the Employment Exchanges all over India, the policies and procedure to be adopted in the functional activities of the Employment Exchanges are prescribed at the national level by the Director General of Employment & Training, New Delhi. And the department is called-National Employment Service (Kerala)’ in this state.

2. What is the structure of Employment Department in Kerala?
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(a) National Employment Service (Kerala) is under the Labor Department, Government of Kerala.
(b) Director of Employment, the Head of the Department, has his Head Quarters at Trivandrum.
Address: Director of Employment, Directorate of Employment, Housing Board Building, G P O, Thiruvananthapuram-695001.

(c) There are 3 Offices of Regional Deputy Director of Employment at Trivandrum, Ernakulam and Kozhikkode.
(d) There are 3 Professional & Executive Employment Exchanges at Trivandrum, Ernakulam and Kozhikkode for the candidates who are having professional degree and post graduation with second class.

(e) There are 14 District Employment Exchanges.
(f) There are 60 Town Employment Exchanges.
(g) There are 6 Special Employment Exchanges for Physically Challenged applicants.
(h) One Rural Employment Exchange at Kazhakkuttam, Thiruvananthapuram.
(i) Two Coaching-cum-Guidance Centres for SC/ST.
(j) 7 University Employment Information & Guidance Bureaus.
(k) 6 Employment Information Assistance Bureaus.

3. What are the services provided to the public by the National Employment Service (Kerala)?
Ans:
(a) Placement Service
(b) Employment Market Information
(c) Vocational Guidance
(d) Welfare Schemes
1. Self Employment Schemes
2. Unemployment Allowance Scheme

4. What does it mean by Placement Service?
Ans:
The Employment Services Department has a primary objective of providing a link between the employers and the job seekers in that it sponsors the candidates of required qualification, experience and skill set for various jobs within the shortest possible time.

The department strives to achieve its objective through the process of registration, renewal, selection and sponsoring of eligible candidates against notified vacancies. The whole process involved through which the employer’s acceptance of a person in to a remunerative job is called placement service.
Sometimes it may be training/apprenticeship with the object of their becoming paid employees on completion of their training/apprenticeship.

5) What is the difference between the placement activities of KPSC and Employment Exchange?
Ans:
(a) Selection through Employment Service is conducted to the
1. the temporary vacancies in the designations coming under the purview of Kerala Public Service Commission in the State Government Sector, Quasi State Government Sector and Local Body Sector,

2. all the vacancies which do not come under the purview of the KPSC, like the Part Time Sweeper etc, in the above sectors,
3. temporary and permanent vacancies in the Central Government Sector, Quasi Central Government Sector, Co-operative Sector and Private Sector

(b) When vacancies are notified to the KPSC from various departments, applications are invited from the interested qualified candidates, through PSC notifications. Then, according to the number of applicants, written test or interview or both and physical test if needed are conducted.

Then list of qualified candidates are published. According to the Communal Rotation Roster, one person is recommended or advised against each vacancy from the list published. And this advised person is appointed by the department against the vacancy notified by them.

(c) When vacancies are notified to the Employment Exchanges, selection is done according to some criteria like seniority, roster point of the Communal Rotation Roster, Community, Age, Priority, Qualification, Experience, Physical fitness etc.

List of senior most candidates, among those who registered the required qualification and considering all those above criteria, normally limited to 9 numbers per vacancy, is forwarded to the Employer.Suitable candidate is being selected from this list by the Employer himself, on the basis of written test or interview or both. This is the major difference between the placement services of KPSC and Employment Exchange.

(d) Another difference we can see is, the delay (the time consumed) involved in the notification and inviting application, conducting of competitive tests, interviews, physical test etc, certificate verification and publishing of lists and advising the candidate by the PSC is not there in the selection process of the Employment Exchange.

The reason is that there is the verified data of Lakhs of qualified candidates to be considered for any vacancy, is readily available in the Employment Exchange.

( e)Also we can see a common factor in case of KPSC and Employment Exchange- that those who applied are many but the selected and posted are only few.

6) Is it necessary for a person to report before the Employment Officer directly to get his name registered?
Ans:
As per the rules now in existence and as per the machinery now available, the candidate has to report in person to get his name registered in the Employment Exchange. But in future, when the provision for online registration comes into effect, the candidate can register his name from any computer that has an internet connection. But the certificates, in original, are to be produced inn the Employment Exchange with in the specified time.

7) What is the minimum and maximum age limit for securing Registration?
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The minimum age limit for registration is 14 years. No maximum age limit has been prescribed.

8) Can a person seek registration in any Employment Exchange in the State as he likes?
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No. A candidate can register his name only with the Employment Exchange under whose jurisdiction he resides.

9) Is dual registration permissible?
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No. Dual registration is looked upon as a penal offense. The punishment will amount to forfeiture of registration. But a person possessing Professional and Executive qualifications can register their names in the Professional and Executive Employment Office, Thiruvananthapuram or the Regional Professional and Executive Employment Exchanges at Ernakulam or Kozhikkode, under whose jurisdiction he resides as the case may be, and retain his registration in the local exchange also.

However the registration, at the local exchange would be treated as secondary only for considering them against vacancies requiring lower qualification. Like wise the ex-service personnel too can maintain primary registration in the Zilla Zainik Board and the secondary registration in the local employment exchange also.

More over if that ex-service candidate has a professional degree or a minimum second class post graduation; he can have registration at the Professional & Executive Employment exchange also.

10) What is the minimum qualification required to register in the Employment Exchange?
Ans:
Literacy is the minimum qualification required to register in the Employment Exchange