The Hue City Civil Servants' Recruitment Council has just organized the opening ceremony of the 2025 civil servant recruitment exam. The exam consists of 2 rounds. Round with two multiple-choice tests on computers including English and Knowledge - General Abilities.
The most notable point of this exam is the very high "fighting" rate, with 836 candidates (301 male, 535 female) registering to take the exam, but only 50 candidates were selected to work at agencies, units and localities in the city.
836 selected 50 - that is, a ratio of nearly 1/17 - reflects great competitiveness, which means the input quality of Hue's future civil servant team is screened more strictly.
This year's exam is organized publicly, transparently, and multiple-choice test on computers, including English and Knowledge - General Abilities. This demonstrates the efforts to change the city's civil servant recruitment method from formal to practical, from "test to get a job" to "test to affirm service capacity".
Now, a civil servant in the two-level local government model cannot only be good at his/her expertise, but must also be able to use technology, data analysis, digital communication and rapid response - core skills of urban government in the digital transformation era.
The two-level model that Hue and localities are implementing requires civil servants to be flexible, versatile and have the ability to directly handle people, because all administrative operations are associated with the image of a modern, friendly and effective government.
More importantly, as stated by the Standing Vice Chairman of the Hue City People's Committee, Nguyen Thanh Binh fully embraced the spirit of the exam: "Cadres and civil servants need to have innovative thinking, dare to think, dare to do".
This is a message showing that Hue not only recruits people with degrees, but also recruits people with a reformative spirit - daring to look straight at the past, daring to propose new things, and daring to take responsibility for their results.
Looking more broadly, this "race" also reflects the attraction of local authorities at both levels in Hue, in the context of many places struggling with the situation of brain drain from the public sector to the private sector.
In recent times, Hue city has created attraction because it has clearly defined the "pioneering administrative brand", with initiatives such as the Hue-S platform - a digital shield connecting people and the government, or leading the country in 9 criteria for handling commune-level administrative procedures.
When local authorities organize a serious, correct civil servant recruitment exam, publicly, transparently and saying no to "assignment" - which was once popular in personnel work - then society's trust in the civil service will be strengthened by specific actions like this.
