Brazil's postal service takes on first of 9,200 new staff

The first of 9,190 new postal workers being taken on in Brazil signed their contracts on Friday. Brazil’s national postal service, ECT, ran into a major staff shortage in the last year, after its day-to-day recruitment programme ground to a halt suffering various administrative problems and delays from a change in the Post’s leadership.

With the continuing natural attrition of workers, ECT has seen its service levels suffer, but launched a major recruitment campaign back in March.

On Friday, the Post held a celebration as the first 15 employees of the new recruitment campaign signed their contracts – 10 clerks and five top-level staff – in the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo.

This week, contracts will be signed by new employees in other regions of Brazil, with 3,116 staff approved for work in Brasilia, Para, Rio Grande do Norte and Santa Catarina.

So far, 34% of expected job vacancies on the recruitment programme have been filled.

ECT said next month it will be carrying out physical evaluations of candidates seeking positions as carriers and mail processing equipment operators.

Plans are to have 9,190 new staff in place by the end of October, ECT said.

ECT made the equivalent of $318.65m USD profit in the first half of 2011, a 48% increase year-on-year, on the back of increased service efficiency under new president Wagner Pinheiro.

Brazil’s national postal service, ECT, ran into a major staff shortage in the last year, after its day-to-day recruitment programme ground to a halt suffering various administrative problems and delays from a change in the Post’s leadership.

With the continuing natural attrition of workers, ECT has seen its service levels suffer, but launched a major recruitment campaign back in March.

On Friday, the Post held a celebration as the first 15 employees of the new recruitment campaign signed their contracts – 10 clerks and five top-level staff – in the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo.

This week, contracts will be signed by new employees in other regions of Brazil, with 3,116 staff approved for work in Brasilia, Para, Rio Grande do Norte and Santa Catarina.

So far, 34% of expected job vacancies on the recruitment programme have been filled.

ECT said next month it will be carrying out physical evaluations of candidates seeking positions as carriers and mail processing equipment operators.

Plans are to have 9,190 new staff in place by the end of October, the Post said.

ECT made the equivalent of $318.65m USD profit in the first half of 2011, a 48% increase year-on-year, on the back of increased service efficiency under new president Wagner Pinheiro.