Opening the door to welcome new people and discovering excellent factors in the apparatus to train and treat them well is the main message that the leaders of Ho Chi Minh City assigned to the Department of Home Affairs when building a policy to attract talented people.
Regarding this issue, Mr. Huynh Thanh Nhan (photo) , Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Home Affairs, shared that he received many comments asking why not discover and have a policy to treat talented people from local sources, but let them quit their jobs and then have to attract them from outside sources to the public sector.
After more than 5 years of implementing Decree 140/2017 of the Government, Ho Chi Minh City has not attracted any excellent graduates or young scientists. Why, sir?
In my opinion, this can be due to both objective and subjective reasons. First of all, the criteria set for attraction in Decree 140/2017 are very high. The number of graduates with the required achievements is very small and if there are any, they are attracted to work in the private sector with very high incentives.
Ho Chi Minh City will have more incentives for officials and civil servants with outstanding abilities working in the apparatus.
Subjectively, agencies and units in Ho Chi Minh City have not boldly registered their need to attract excellent graduates and young scientists due to concerns about limited recruitment sources. At the same time, the regime and policies for these subjects are higher than the general level of cadres, civil servants and public employees, so it is likely to give rise to a situation of comparison, lack of cooperation, and loss of motivation to work. Therefore, in the past 5 years, Ho Chi Minh City has not been able to recruit from this source.
Is it because it is difficult to find talented people that Ho Chi Minh City lowers the criteria and expands the target audience?
In order to attract and recruit many excellent students and young scientists, we have proposed to expand the selection criteria compared to the original regulations of Decree 140, while at the same time attaching importance to the assessment of public service capacity and applying a remuneration policy based on work performance. For example, if you complete excellently, you will receive 100% of the support level, if you complete well, you will receive 80%, and no support will be paid if you only complete the task or less.
In fact, many cadres, civil servants and public employees, although not meeting all the standards and conditions under Decree 140, have many excellent academic and work achievements, many contributions, many products and projects of truly high value, bringing great benefits to the agency, unit and city.
However, these subjects have not been considered and have not had policies to encourage, motivate and develop their capacity. Therefore, it is necessary to expand the subjects and diversify the recruitment standards and conditions to both increase the number of recruits and attract truly valuable intellectual resources to work in the political system.
Ho Chi Minh City pays 120 million VND salary to attract and retain talented people
At a recent workshop organized by the Department of Home Affairs, there was an opinion that if the recruitment criteria are only slightly higher than the standards for civil servants and public employees, will it be possible to find talented people?
We have identified 3 groups of attractive candidates to ensure that they are suitable to the city's situation and conditions. Group 1 is excellent graduates, young scientists, and talented young scientists according to Decree 140. Group 2 is those who only lack 1-2 criteria of excellent graduates, young scientists, and talented young scientists. And group 3 is officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers who have at least 10 years of work left, and have many outstanding achievements in public service and professional tasks in the past 10 years.
The division into 3 groups demonstrates the spirit of openness and respect for intellectuals, from young talents at home and abroad to cadres, civil servants and public employees who have made many contributions. This is also the basis for selecting excellent seeds with high development potential to continue to nurture and create a source of successor cadres.
What are the breakthroughs in the preferential policies that the Department of Home Affairs is building, sir?
In addition to the salary, allowance and additional income policies according to general regulations, Ho Chi Minh City will support income from 2 - 4 times the regional minimum wage (4.68 million VND/month), research and innovation incentive policies can receive up to 1 billion VND, support rent of 7 million VND/month and support interest when borrowing capital to build housing. The income support policy applies for 5 years and is renewed annually.
Which civil servants and public employees will be registered to participate in the new policy?
Officials, civil servants, and public employees holding leadership and management positions from deputy department head and equivalent or lower in agencies and units at the department, district level and equivalent levels can participate. Officials and public employees who meet the criteria will be included in the policy without having to re-examine.
The Department of Home Affairs is completing the draft report for the City People's Committee to submit to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council for consideration and approval at the year-end meeting, so that it can be applied from 2024.
Correctly evaluate the "excellent" factor
Dr. Bui Tran Quynh Ngoc, Vice Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, said that it is necessary to review the content of "Excellent graduate" because different training institutions will have different assessments.
Sharing the same view, Le Minh Duc, Deputy Head of the Legal Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, suggested that instead of relying solely on the graduation certificates of students, there should be an assessment and approval mechanism to select students with truly outstanding abilities. Mr. Duc also proposed a mechanism to nurture young talents, send them for training and development abroad and then return to serve the public administration.
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