Gwangju City Improves 'Integrated Public Institution Recruitment Method'

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 5th that it has prepared the "Public Institution Integrated Recruitment Improvement Plan," which includes improvements to the final successful candidate selection method and an expansion of the proportion of external interviewers, to prevent disputes during employee recruitment and further strengthen fairness and transparency in employee hiring, as it enters the second year of implementing integrated recruitment for public institutions. After collecting opinions from public institutions, the plan will be applied starting from the integrated recruitment in the second half of this year.

The main points of the improvement plan are ▲reflecting written test scores by 50% or more when determining the final successful candidates for each institution ▲expanding the pool of interviewers from about 100 to 200-300 ▲composing interview panels with at least five interviewers and increasing the proportion of external interviewers from 60% to 80% or more ▲strengthening fairness and transparency by having the city directly notify interviewers and collect confidentiality agreements such as "Non-Disclosure Agreements," instead of the previous method where the city notified the institutions and the institutions informed the interviewers.

Gwangju City conducted an opinion-gathering process targeting 31 institutions to prepare this improvement plan. Going forward, it plans to guide institutions to supplement related regulations to ensure there are no disruptions in the integrated recruitment exams for public institutions.

Meanwhile, since its establishment, Gwangju City has been conducting integrated recruitment for employees of affiliated public institutions starting last year as part of innovation efforts, receiving favorable reviews for enhancing transparency in public institution hiring and eradicating recruitment corruption.

The integrated recruitment process involves Gwangju City identifying the new hiring needs of each institution and conducting recruitment announcements and written exams on the same schedule twice a year, in the first and second halves.

Last year, 24 institutions participated, hiring 127 people, and in the first half of this year, 16 institutions participated, hiring 69 people.

Park Sang-baek, the city’s Budget Officer, said, “We expect this public institution integrated recruitment improvement plan to further strengthen the fairness of hiring excellent local talent,” and added, “We will continue to make greater efforts to improve recruitment systems suited to local circumstances.”

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