Gyeonggi Province to Recruit 2,067 New Civil Servants This Year

Gyeonggi Province will recruit a total of 2,067 new civil servants this year, including 136 part-time civil servants.

Gyeonggi Province has finalized the implementation plan for the 2014 open and career-track civil service exams containing this information and will release it on the 10th on the Gyeonggi Province exam information website (http://exam.gg.go.kr).

Looking at Gyeonggi Province's hiring plan in detail this year, the province will recruit 1,791 regular civil servants, 88 persons with disabilities, 52 low-income individuals, and 136 part-time civil servants for a total of 2,067. The province will hire 70 and municipalities will hire 1,997.

The main job categories announced in this recruitment are ▲General Administration Grade 9: 816 positions ▲Taxation Grade 9: 119 positions ▲Facilities Grade 9: 249 positions ▲General Administration Grade 7: 16 positions. Open competition will fill 28 Grade 7 positions and 1,581 Grade 8·9 positions, while career-track competition will fill 3 General Affairs Grade 7 positions and 21 Research Officer·Instructor positions.

A distinctive feature of this year's hiring plan is 136 part-time civil servants, accounting for 3.5% of the total recruitment. Part-time civil servants are regular civil servants but work 20 hours per week, 4 hours per day.

In December last year, Gyeonggi Province announced a plan to hire 990 part-time civil servants representing 3.5% of all civil servants Grade 7 and below within the province by 2017.

According to this hiring plan, the province will accept applications from the 3rd to the 7th of next month for Grade 8·9 open competition civil service exams (excluding Social Welfare positions).

Applications can only be submitted through the Integrated Internet Application Center for Local Governments (http://local.gosi.co.kr), and the written exam will be held on June 21.

A Gyeonggi Province official stated, "This announcement includes only 1,633 positions, which is part of the entire hiring plan," and explained that "excluded are the 336 Grade 9 Social Welfare positions announced in January, the Grade 9 recruitment exam for specialized high school and meister high school graduates (expected) announced in March (26 positions), and Grade 8·9 career-track civil service exams (approximately 72 positions)."

For more details, please contact the Gyeonggi Province Personnel Division's Talent Recruitment Team (031-8008-4040, 4045~4047, 4063).