Despite signs that the unemployment situation has stabilized, many job seekers still see civil service jobs as their top choice, with more than 100,000 people registering to take the civil service examination for local government employees — the highest number in history.
The Examination Yuan said the number of people registering for the civil service special exam for local government employees this year, which began yesterday and continues until tomorrow, totaled 107,096, up 22,559 from the previous year.
The acceptance rate for this year is estimated at about 2.3 percent, compared with 3.8 percent last year and 5 percent in 2007, ministry statistics showed.
In addition to the exam for local government employees, the number of people registering for senior and junior exams for civil servants earlier this year also set a 10-year record of 122,597, with an acceptance rate of 4.2 percent.
Although it is getting more difficult to land a government job, finding a way to strengthen the quality of government employees has become a hot topic among politicians recently.
Examination Yuan President Kuan Chung (關中) said yesterday that it was necessary to reform the performance appraisal system for government employees so people who have outstanding performance can be properly rewarded, while those with unsatisfactory performance can be punished.
On Thursday, Control Yuan President Wang Chien-shien (王建煊) told a group of students from Taipei First Girls’ High School who were visiting the Control Yuan that many government employees were idiots who could only talk about problems but could not solve them.
Wang also said that government employees who are unable to solve problems need to resign.
Responding to Wang’s remarks the following day, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) on Friday said that nobody was perfect and that the government needed to find people’s talent and capabilities.
As the workload of government employees has increased two-to-three-fold, Examination Yuan officials said they planned to provide more details for government job applicants to avoid some unrealistic expectations of their jobs.
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