The first semi-structured interview format first appears in the 2021 Jiangsu Civil Service Interviews for Exam Recruitment.

Interviews with civil servants for the 2021 exam in Jiangsu province were held on March 6 and 7. This year, the province has effectively hired 9,285 officials and staff from institutions that manage institutions in accordance with the Civil Service Law, and more than 29,000 candidates (including more than 1,490 newly selected and transferred graduates), more than 7,600 examiners and more. than 4,000 staff members participated in the interview. The scores for interviews and exam work, the number of enabled exam rooms, and the number of candidates, examiners and staff are the largest in history.

The province official interview job implements the “five unifications,” that is, unified organization, unified procedures, unified time, unified questions, and unified requirements. It is understood that this interview is the first to use the “Examiner Selection” module of the “Jiangsu Provincial Public Administration Interview Examiner Management System”, of good political quality, strong professional ability, impartiality and decent, and have the qualifications of an interview examiner recognized by the province’s civil service department. From among the staff, the examiner for this interview is randomly selected to further reduce human factors. The interview job strictly implements the evasion system and continues to implement interview examiner exchanges between districts and cities. In addition to the provincial direct examination area, the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, together with the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, sent 18 inspectors to inspect the examination areas to guide, supervise and inspect the examination work.

Interview work adheres to precision and science and optimizes the interview method. In interview mode, a semi-structured interview format first appeared. Yuan Jingyu, secretary of the Party Committee and dean of the Provincial Institute of Education Examination, believes that the semi-structured interview format that first appeared in this interview has two-way communication. in-depth information than in materials law, and can achieve content The combination of structure and flexibility, but this is very demanding on both the test system and the examiner. Due to adherence to the principles of predetermining the elements before determining the questions, the elements and the test questions are not strictly corresponding, and the examiner does not ask for more than the outline, this innovation takes into account the scientific nature and fairness of the interview.

In the scoring method, the old “total scoring method” was changed to the “item scoring method”. Chen Sheyu, president of Nanjing Open University, believes that the interviews with public officials emphasize the following elements: level of policy theory, planning and organizing capacity, communication and coordination capacity, emergency response capacity, initiative and functionality. , knowledge and skills of service. These elements are consistent with the general competence of public officials. The item scoring method of this interview further embodies the civil servant recruitment exam requirements for accurate selection and use.

Candidate Chen Liang (pseudonym) from Changzhou found a semi-structured interview question book during the interview on day 7. After answering the questions, the examiner asked them. Chen Liang candidly said that the semi-structured interview format is an innovation, which can better examine the ability of candidates to respond to changes and deal with practical problems, but it also has certain difficulties.

Suqian candidate Wang Qing (pseudonym) told reporters that this interview not only examined the literacy of political theory at the macro level, but also examined the actual functioning in the micro-direction. The overall difficulty of the exam was moderate. Investigating the elements of political theory is evident in the textbook, such as the “extraordinary year” mentioned by Secretary-General Xi Jinping during the interview, and how to solve problems arising from promoting business assistance policies.

This year, the recruitment of civil servants in our province will begin in mid-March in accordance with the pertinent regulations to organize physical examinations and inspections, determine the list of candidates to be hired, make public announcements and go through the recruitment procedures. All examination and registration work is expected to be completed before the end of July. Corresponding college graduates strive to complete recruiting work before leaving school.