MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BoC) is hiring new employees to fill more than a 1,000 positions next year to augment reforms in the agency, its spokesperson said Tuesday.
The hiring will begin in the first quarter of 2017 “to fill up positions that were left vacant for years, as a result of rationalization policies and freeze on hiring of the past administrations,” said Neil Anthony Estrella, acting spokesperson for enforcement and intelligence operations at Customs.
“An estimated 2,500 interested applicants submitted their application for more than 1,000 vacant positions posted by the Bureau last month. This includes opening for both new hire and employees up to for promotion. The Bureau of Customs employees who passed their applications and are qualified for higher promotions, are all up for promotion this month,” Estrella said.
He added that newly recruited or promoted employees “are expected to overhaul the tainted image of the agency.”
