Due to recessionary conditions occurring periodically, a lot of candidates are increasingly preferring jobs in the Government Sector. While the humongous amount of vacancies announced in the Government sector are secured, the private sector does fire employees during pressing situations. A Government job is known to build stability and bring in authoritative roles.
Staff Selection Commission is a body that is governed by the Government of India in recruiting staffs across multiple levels in various ministries and Government Departments. The Staff Selection Commission conducts about 11 exams in a year out of which SSC CGL is known to be a popular one. Some of the other exams include Combined Higher Secondary Level, Junior Engineer, Stenographer, Hindi Translator to mention reputed ones.
Close to 30 Lakh candidates register for the SSC CGL every year out of which about 1% gets selected after 4 Tiers of the examination. This huge number has made the popularity of the exam very obvious. However, we would be examining the reasons as to why the SSC CGL enjoys immense popularity:
SSC CGL: Top Reasons of Popularity
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Job Security and Stability: The Central Government jobs are never affected by recessionary trends or any other. The job opportunities in the Government Sector also are unaffected by the demand and supply factors existing in any kind of market. Upto 60 years of age, the Indian Government provides service tenure to a candidate.
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Financial Consistency: Cash flow and the perquisites offered to any Government employee are much greater and better than those offered to any private sector employee which makes him render a long tenure of service to the organization.
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Increments: 3% of increment occurs in the basic salary issued to any employee year on year. The Pay Commission is responsible for reviewing the salary structure of the Government employees. The Pay Commission makes changes or revision in the Pay structure in a way to benefit and attract more students and younger population to join the organization, and also tries to make it employee friendly.
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Equality: The candidates are not discriminated on the basis of caste, creed, race or religion. The recruitment process is transparent and is by way of giving the competitive examinations.
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Promotions in the job: Work experience in a Government organization is in itself valued owing to the Ministry a candidate works in as well as guaranteed after a candidate completes the required amount of service considered deserving of a promotion.
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Balanced Life: Any dream job has an important quality of ensuring the employee has an equal share of his personal life in addition to the work he does. The Government jobs offer him a quality compensation and also offer him a life that is balanced on work as well as personal time.
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Career Growth Opportunities: SSC conducts departmental exams on the basis of grades as per the vacancies existing in the Central Government Departments. This gives candidates a good scope for growth and moving forward. A good performance by the candidates in these exams would ensure greater prospects of growth.
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Syllabus and Pattern: The SSC CGL Syllabus and the SSC CGL Exam Pattern are also very generic consisting of sections like Reasoning, Logic, Maths, Language and General Knowledge. The syllabus is clearly structured and simplified so much so, that any candidate with the right preparatory material and the right strategy in place can score well in the SSC CGL Examination.
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Prestige and Status: A lot of employees from the ministries employed by means of clearing the SSC CGL to enjoy a lot of respect over the positions and the authority they have. That is another reason why SSC CGL examination is known to be popular.
Latest News: SSC CGL 2018: Online applications start from April 21
The SSC CGL Result was announced on October 31 and the SSC CGL Tier 1 marks were released in the first week of November. The SSC CGL Tier 2 and Tier 3 Examination is slated to be held in the last week of December in the year 2017. The candidates would have to pass a Tier 4 examination as well which would also be a Skill Test to test the typing speed or skillsets of the jobs that are relevant to various candidates. The SSC CGL, though generic and a good gateway into the Government jobs, is highly competitive considering the huge number of students who enroll for it every year.
