Seoul City 2nd Local Government Officer Recruitment, 450 Final Passers... 53% Women, 65% in Their 20s

Tie Scores and Gender Equality Applied, 33 More Selected Than Originally Planned Number

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] On the 29th, the Seoul Metropolitan Government finalized and announced the list of 450 successful candidates for the "2021 2nd Local Government Employee Recruitment Examination" on the Seoul Metropolitan Government Internet Application Center.

For the 2nd exam, although a total of 417 candidates were originally planned to be selected across 35 recruitment units, the final number of successful candidates was increased by 33 to 450 due to ties and the application of the gender equality acceptance system.

The successful candidates of this 2nd recruitment exam passed the written test held on October 16 and the interview conducted over six days from the 7th to the 14th of this month, overcoming an average competition ratio of 50.4 to 1 to achieve final acceptance. Regarding the gender and age of the successful candidates, 240 (53.3%) were female, and 291 (64.7%) were in their 20s. The oldest successful candidate was 56 years old (General Administration Grade 7), and the youngest was 18 years old (Electrical Facilities Grade 9).

By region, the highest number of successful candidates was from the Seoul area with 250 (55.6%), followed by Gyeonggi with 100 (22.2%) and Incheon with 20 (4.4%). Among the total 3,699 successful candidates in this year's Seoul Metropolitan Government recruitment exams, 2,263 (61.2%) were from the Seoul area, an increase of 32.8 percentage points compared to 28.4% in 2018 before the unification of exam dates with other cities and provinces.

Seoul plans to conduct three regular open recruitment exams next year. The 1st written exam will be held on February 26, the 2nd on June 18, and the 3rd on October 29.

No Eun-joo, Director of Talent Recruitment, stated, "Through this recruitment exam, we have recruited talented individuals with expertise and suitability for public service in various fields, and next year as well, we will do our best to hire progressive public officials who will lead Seoul's administration through a fair and transparent recruitment process."

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