Seoul City to Select 2,938 Candidates for Grade 8 and 9 Public Service Exams... 57.4% of Successful Applicants Are Women

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] The Seoul Metropolitan Government confirmed and announced on the 29th the final successful candidates for the '2020 1st and 2nd Open Competitive and Career Competitive Recruitment Examinations,' totaling 2,938 people.

These final successful candidates passed the interview exams held from August 26 to September 15 among the 3,685 who passed the written exam conducted on June 13. By rank, there are 2,616 at grade 9 and 322 at grade 8; by job category, 1,592 are in administrative positions and 1,346 in technical positions.

To expand public service opportunities for socially disadvantaged groups, 108 people with disabilities, recruited separately from general applicants, accounted for 3.7% of total hires, and 177 low-income candidates passed, representing 7.2% of the grade 9 open competitive exam successful candidates.

By gender, 1,253 males (42.6%) and 1,685 females (57.4%) passed, with females exceeding males by 14.8 percentage points. Compared to last year's pass rate, the proportion of male successful candidates increased by 2.9 percentage points.

Age distribution showed that those in their 20s made up the majority at 61.0% (1,791 people), followed by those in their 30s at 29.6% (870 people), 40s at 7.4% (217 people), 50s at 1.6% (48 people), and teens at 0.4% (12 people).

Additionally, the youngest successful candidates were 18 years old, appearing in the electrical facilities grade 9 and mechanical facilities grade 9 categories, while the oldest was 58 years old in the general administration grade 9 category.

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