Recruitment exam - a must in selecting leading officials

(Baonghean) -From 2006 to 2012, the People's Committee of Da Nang City organized the examination for 283 candidates and selected 92 people with high scores for appointment. In 2013, the People's Committee of Da Nang City received hundreds of applications from candidates to register for the examination to select 40 directors, deputy directors and heads and deputy heads of departments and branches of the city. Da Nang is the first administrative unit in the Central and Central Highlands regions to implement the examination mechanism to appoint leadership positions and as a basis for considering and evaluating the training of successor cadres.

Mr. Dang Cong Ngu, Director of the Department of Home Affairs of Da Nang City, said that in the near future, Da Nang will expand the candidates for leadership positions outside the province. Specifically, a civil servant from another province can take the exam to become the director of a Da Nang department if that candidate meets all the prescribed conditions.

To limit the negative consequences of bribery in the use and promotion of leaders as well as improving the working capacity of officials, Da Nang pays great attention to the supervision and control stages in the examination work from invigilation, grading and other strict examination procedures to ensure the objectivity of the examination results. Fighting negativity in the examination and selection of officials is a matter of great concern. Obviously, direct examination to select leaders has many advantages that should be promoted.

Firstly, the examination helps us select cadres with professional qualifications as well as administrative, scientific and cultural knowledge to meet the requirements of the task.

Second, if the recruitment process is carried out strictly, it will limit the promotion of officials based on emotions, personal interests, group interests, and even the promotion of officials to create prestige and factions.

Third, the examination helps candidates avoid negativity right from the selection stage so that the selected cadres do not carry negative debts, both material and spiritual, but can focus their capacity, wholeheartedly serve the people, and complete their work in a worthy manner.

If we look back at history, the selection of officials in our country during feudal times was also based on examinations for selection and promotion. The only thing is, the examination methods and content were of course different in each period.

The fact that Da Nang City is returning to the method of selecting officials by examination is not strange to our country's long-standing tradition of examinations, which many researchers have evaluated as "very civilized" and "very superior". Hopefully, the "experiments" of Da Nang will be paid attention to by many localities to consider, draw lessons from good and bad experiences, and apply creatively to make the work of selecting and promoting officials more and more substantial and progressive.

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