Project launched to develop competency model for college-educated rural officials

On January 8, the Shunyi Human Resources Service Center signed a project development contract with Peking University's Career Guidance Center for developing a competency model for college graduates working as village officials. Both parties hold in-depth discussions about specific details of the project.

Since the first batch of college-educated village officials were recruited in 2006, a recruitment program for college-educated village officials in Beijing has been carried out for four consecutive years and nearly 10 thousand university students have worked or are working as village officials in various villages. The municipal Party committee and district committee attach great importance to the work of these college-educated village officials. They emphasize the importance of selecting qualified personnel and make great efforts to choose those with strong organizational skills, an enterprising mind and a dedicated spirit to work in the village.

Shunyi Human Resources Service Center thoroughly maintained the urban district's spirit and continuously strengthens and perfects a scientific method of selecting qualified personnel. In 2008, in cooperation with Peking University, the Shunyi Human Resources Service Center developed an online testing and assessment system to test the village officials' psychological state and was also the first to adopt a "Psychological Quality Testing and Assessment Form to Test the Village Official's Personality” in order to select university students to be village officials, a step which was acclaimed by the city's leaders and was endorsed by the entire city. In 2009, the Shunyi Human Resources Service Center held psychological quality testing and assessment work for selecting Beijing university students to be the village officials, and the project had more than 5000 participants. In 2010, the Shunyi Human Resources Service Center will strengthen its cooperation with Peking University to develop the competency model with college graduates working as village officials and provide a theoretical foundation and practical tools for selecting, training and grading university students to become village officials. This is the first example of this sort of project in this country and it is highly valued and appreciated by Zhang Zude, deputy director general of Beijing Human Resources and Social Security Administration. The implementation of the competency model development project will be beneficial to the selection and cultivation of the young backup personnel and will be very significant in promoting the construction of a new socialist countryside and accelerating the process of narrowing the gap between the city and the countryside.

According to sources, the competency model development project for college-educated village officials will enter the implementation phase. It is expected that the project's software development and testing work will be finished at the beginning of May this year and it will operate during the year, selecting, appraising and training university students who will become the village officials.

Translated by LOTO