Bureau of Customs to hold second pre-employment exam on September 28

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To accommodate qualified applicants whose names were omitted in the list of qualified examinees and those who were unable to take the exam last August 31, 2014 due to valid reasons like illness, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) will hold another pre-employment exam this Sunday, September 28, at Angelicum College in Quezon City.

A total of 239 applicants will be taking the exam this Sunday, 49 of whom are applying for supervisory positions and the rest for non-supervisory vacancies. The examinees include current BOC employees who have applied for promotion and new applicants who are aspiring for the 1,042 positions at the Bureau’s main office and various collection districts throughout the country.

The list of examinees is posted in the BOC website, www.customs.gov.ph (http://customs.gov.ph/job-openings/2014/09/22/list-of-examinees-aptitude-test/).

Of the total 4,757 applicants who had been qualified to take the exam, about 75% took the BOC General Aptitude Test last August 31, while another 20% did not show up.

The exam will be administered by the Civil Service Commission. It includes analytical and deductive skills, reading comprehension, logical reasoning, problem-solving based basic mathematical notions and inference skills.

Examinees are required to bring two (2) valid identification cards, such as current Company/Office or School ID, Driver’s License, Passport, Voter’s ID, GSIS ID, SSS ID, BIR ID, Postal ID, Police Clearance, Barangay ID or PhilHealth ID; two (2) black ballpens; two (2) No. 2 lead pencils; and an eraser.

Meanwhile, the Civil Service Commission stressed that they will bar applicants from taking the exam should they fail to present valid identification cards. The CSC also advises examinees to be at Angelicum College on or before the time of the examination which will begin at exactly 7:00am so they can verify and locate their designated examination rooms. Angelicum College is located at 112 MJ Cuenco St. Biak-na BatoSto. Domingo, Quezon City. For more information, visit the BOC website at http://customs.gov.ph/announcements/2014/09/22/announcement-supervisory-and-non-supervisory-general-aptitude-test/

Examinees that pass the first exam will move to the second round of tests, this time focused on specific aptitude and skills for the positions they are applying for. These include physical fitness tests for those applying for positions in the Intelligence and Enforcement groups.

Results of the first and second batches of the BOC General Aptitude Test will be released by the BOC and CSC by the last week of October, 2014.