Daegu City Selects 3,000 Participants for Public Jobs... Record High Competition Rate of 3 to 1

From the 4th, 'Public Work Phase 1' Across the City... "Efforts to Expand Participants in Phases 2 and 3"

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Daegu City announced on the 31st that it will select 3,000 participants for the '2021 Public Job Project' on February 1st and will officially launch the first phase of public work and local quarantine job projects across the city starting from the 4th.

From the 4th to the 11th of last month, out of 13,229 applicants who wished to participate at 144 locations including eup, myeon, and dong based on their addresses throughout Daegu City, 3,000 were selected by comprehensively applying selection criteria such as income, property, unemployment period, vulnerable employment groups, and business suspension or closure status.

The selected 3,000 will receive prior safety training and then work for three months at various public workplaces including life quarantine support (470 people), informatization promotion (400 people), public service support (1,000 people), environmental cleanup (1,000 people), and district/county specialized projects (130 people).

In particular, this year, 13,229 people applied, which is three times the 4,144 applicants during the recruitment period in January of the previous year, marking the highest number of applicants during the same period since the local government-led public job project began in 2005.

Daegu City is currently preparing measures to secure additional project funds such as national subsidies to expand public jobs this year, and plans to allow more citizens to participate in the second and third phases of the public work projects than originally planned.

Kim Tae-woon, Director of the Job Investment Bureau of Daegu City, stated, "We will further expand public jobs so that citizens suffering from employment difficulties due to the prolonged recession caused by COVID-19 can stand up again through public jobs."

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