Gyeonggi Province Expands Recruitment of Career Civil Servants in Second Half of Year

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 19th that it will hire a total of 113 career civil servants in the second half of this year, including 46 career positions at public institutions under the province and 67 private sector experience hires for provincial civil servants.

While recruiting approximately 110 career civil servants, the province is significantly strengthening the preferential treatment system for small and medium enterprise workers.

To this end, the province is preparing preferential measures for public sector advancement for small and medium enterprise workers, including the 'Expansion Plan for Bonus Point System for Small and Medium Enterprise Career Workers in Gyeonggi Province Public Institution Recruitment' and the 'Preferential Public Sector Recruitment Plan for Private Sector Experience Workers including Small and Medium Enterprises,' which will be applied starting from the second half of 2016 recruitment.

First, through the expansion of the bonus point system for small and medium enterprise career workers, those with career experience in small and medium enterprises in the province will receive up to more than double the current bonus points on every test including written examinations and interviews when applying for new positions at public institutions under the province.

The currently implemented bonus point system grants bonus points ranging from 2-8% for administrative positions and 3-10% for production positions for those with two to five or more years of experience. However, under the expanded plan, both administrative and production positions will benefit from 5% for those with two or more years of experience and 10% for those with three or more years of experience.

A 10% bonus point is equivalent to the maximum bonus point provided when hiring national merit award recipients, and the implementing agencies will expand from the current 11 public institutions to 24, covering all public institutions under the province. The number of selections will be set at a maximum of 30% of the total selections by field and will be applied when four or more are selected by field.

Additionally, the province plans to gradually expand the recruitment of private sector experience workers, including those from small and medium enterprises, in the civil service examination for provincial civil servants.

Governor Nam Kyung-pil of Gyeonggi Province stated, "By expanding opportunities for public sector advancement for those with years of experience working at small and medium enterprises, the core of this institutional strengthening is to increase the value of small and medium enterprise careers and ultimately resolve the hiring difficulties facing small and medium enterprises."