Gwangju City Job Committee Launches Initiative to Discover New Public Sector Job Projects

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] The Gwangju Metropolitan City Job Committee is making a large-scale effort to discover new public sector job projects aimed at enhancing citizens' welfare and creating good jobs.

Gwangju City announced on the 5th that as a result of prioritizing job policies during the 7th local government administration, jobs for local youth, women, and the elderly have somewhat improved, but middle-aged workers in their 40s still face difficulties in the job market. Therefore, the city plans to devote all its administrative capabilities and resources to discovering new job projects.

First, by next month, the city will prioritize implementing job projects in eight fields closely related to existing job projects: welfare, cultural tourism, environment, urban regeneration, transportation construction, industrial economy, and others.

In particular, the city will form a job project discovery team led by heads of departments and bureaus for each field, including field experts, academia, and public officials. Through surveys, analysis, and discussions on jobs in each relevant field, they will discover job projects reflecting regional characteristics.

Gwangju City plans to enhance the execution capability of newly discovered job projects and strengthen synergy with existing job projects by providing professional consulting support from job project experts starting from the discovery stage.

The discovered job projects will be finalized as new job projects after review and coordination by the Gwangju City Job Committee. Each project department will promptly proceed with the projects by establishing detailed implementation plans and securing necessary budgets.

Departments excelling in discovering new job projects will receive rewards and additional points in the job project performance evaluation (BSC), and the relevant public officials will be given incentives such as priority recommendation for ‘Employee of the Month.’

In this regard, Gwangju City is significantly expanding and promoting new future job projects such as the artificial intelligence (AI) cluster creation and e-sports software (SW) developer support projects, as well as job projects for different groups including youth, seniors, middle-aged workers, and women.

Park Nam-eon, Director of the City’s Job and Economy Office, said, “Although the domestic and international economic conditions are very difficult due to COVID-19, we will actively promote the discovery of new public sector job projects reflecting Gwangju’s unique characteristics along with improvements to existing job projects, together with the Gwangju City Job Committee, to enhance citizens’ welfare and create good jobs.”

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