Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee workers "re-employment"

China's national sports system, in the increasingly deep new relationship between the government and the market, is quietly changing its form. From the Asian Organizing Committee to the Olympic Organizing Committee, the changes in the sources and destinations of staff illustrate this point well

On August 8, 2008, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Zhou Hua? a little lost and a little excited? Excited because the goal for which she has been fighting for five years has finally been realized; lost because the opening of the Olympics means she will face the problem of re-employment.

Entering the Organizing Committee

Zhou Hua was one of the first staff members to be recruited through an open recruitment process, which took place at the end of 2002 for the first time. This kind of open recruitment is rare in the country's previous large-scale events, and the competition is very fierce. More than 3,000 people applied for more than 40 jobs.

After a written test and an interview, Zhou Hua became one of the 40 staff members in early 2003. As soon as the Olympic organizing committee released the recruitment information, I wanted to be personally involved. Zhou Hua told China News Weekly. She gave up her job at a Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation organization for this reason.

And let Yu Xiaotian choose the Olympic Organizing Committee, not just the Olympic complex. 2006, just out of school, he found his first job in Guangdong, a well-known electrical appliances company. At the end of December, he quit his job and returned to Beijing. For Yu Xiaotian, whose account is not in Beijing, staying in Beijing to work is his long-cherished dream.

The newest addition to the list is a new round of social recruiting for the Olympic organizing committee, which is looking for a job opportunity. It is both a springboard and an opportunity.

Of the more than 4,000 staff members on the OCOG, more than 3,000 are selected and more than 1,000 are employed by the OCOG. Staff like Zhou Hua and Yu Xiaotian, who were recruited through the community, are known as ?P1? P2s, who are seconded from various organizations, and P3s, who are interns of the Organizing Committee, are also included. There has been no such division in the organizing committees of previous major events: the organizing committees of the Asian Games and the Universiade did not conduct similar open recruitment.

Wei Jizhong, the 72-year-old chairman of the Sports Commission of the Olympic Council of Asia, was involved in the entire preparatory process for the Beijing Asian Games. Wei Jizhong said in an interview with China News Weekly: ? There was basically no recruitment at the Asian Games, it was all seconded from various organizations, including the Beijing Municipal Government, the National Sports Commission and some large enterprises.

The planning system dominated the organizing work that year, and specific projects were apportioned to various government departments. For example, accommodation was assigned to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commercial Services No. 1, while catering was assigned to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commercial Services No. 2. The Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce then managed both. It was a unified leadership," Wei said. Wei Jizhong said.

For the 2000 Games, that system was replaced by a more market-oriented model: a state-owned enterprise contracted to do the work. And the personnel work of the Organizing Committee of the Universiade still continues? The secondment? The main mode of operation is the secondment.

He Zhenwen, now vice president of Beijing Sport University, was seconded to the boxing gym press center under the Asian Games Organizing Committee's press announcements department as the director of the center, in his capacity as deputy director of the publicity department of Beijing Sport University. The salary is paid by the school, the Olympic organizing committee to give some subsidies symbolically.? The staff of the boxing gym sub-press center are all drawn from various units.

Since then, whenever there is a large-scale competition, He Zhenwen will be seconded to the organizing committee of the competition. Nowadays the Olympic Organizing Committee in addition to the seconded staff, the social recruitment of a large proportion of...? The Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Beijing Sports University Olympic Organizing Committee's project department has 16 people, some of them are social personnel recruited. For this change, He Zhenwen believes: ? One reason is that the Olympic Organizing Committee is too large: the selection of the selection can not be over; more importantly, our country's mechanism has changed, the employment system has changed a lot. First of all, there is a market; there are such people in the community, there is a source; the use of people is not limited to the past small circle of people, more use of social resources.

This combination of secondment and social recruitment will continue in the Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee. We have all these ways. staff of the Personnel Department of the Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee told China News Weekly.

? Feel a little bit of older non-engaged youth?

? Asian Games seconded staff also have some can not return, then formed a North Star Group. The first time the staff involved in the Olympic bid is also mainly by the units seconded, the second time we organized the North Olympic Group.?

1990 Asian Games closed, the wholly state-owned enterprise North Star Industrial Group Company was formally established. The main business is real estate development, conference and exhibition, property operation and management and retail business. Wei Jizhong said in an interview with China News Weekly: ? Some of those who were seconded from the government, we didn't let him go back to the government, so we let him become the backbone of the North Star Group or the North Olympic Group. At that time, the solution to this problem was to rely on the establishment of a large integrated group to arrange these people.

For the 2008 Olympic Games staff arrangements, as a senior adviser to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, Wei Jizhong had suggested the organization of a similar group of companies to absorb and make use of these after the Olympic Games exercise of talent. Wei's suggestion? , Athens practice: the implementation of market-oriented operation. The Olympic Organizing Committee and the social recruiting staff of the contract is clearly marked: the end of the work of the independent choice of employment.

? Autonomous career choice after the games? In the past, the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in the staff has long been? Taken for granted? The organizing committee of the Olympic Games was formed in the form of a company, the government only gives municipal support, after the work is over, the CEO is unemployed. I think it is normal in foreign countries.? Yu Xiaotian said.

This model is different from the previous? The government is responsible for the end? Wei Jizhong summarized in an interview with China Newsweek: ? It's a completely different social model, we use simple words, the 1990 Asian Games is completely with a political social model; to the Olympic Games it has begun to have a large part of the model of civil society.

On September 10, the final race at the Old Mountain Velodrome. As the flag was raised for the last time in the arena, many of the staff felt a sense of loss, that the hustle and bustle of the previous period would come to a slow halt as the flag was slowly raised.

On this day, Yu Xiaotian asked his colleagues in the department to order a cake, and his colleagues had a last party in the office, where they took a group photo. The colleagues from different places will go their own way. The colleague of Yu Xiaotian, Lv Liang, went back to his original workplace. Originally a teacher at a university in Beijing, Lv Liang was seconded to the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games as the volunteer manager of the Laoshan Velodrome. Other colleagues have also returned to their original units.

Yu Xiaotian felt that things were suddenly gone, and those people around him were also gone. No one will ever ask you to do anything again. You just stay at home on the line, it is really quite difficult. Yu Xiaotian said. How to find a new job is what he has to face again. Question. In Yu Xiaotian's own words: ? Feeling a little bit older to be unemployed young people.

Special Civil Service Exam

?P1?s at the beginning of the recruitment has the psychological preparation of the end of the work facing unemployment. However, many of the P1s were also confident that the Olympic organizing committee would provide them with help in solving their job problems.

? In what way is the solution to the job? Does it give a platform for recruiting jobs, or does it give you all the jobs you need to get organized? Who knows.? Yu told China News Weekly.

? Previously, it was said that in April this year, the destination of everyone to be arranged in advance, but they are all rumors that come out of the small news.? Before the official placement program came out, colleagues were also circulating different claims. Until the end of September Yu Xiaogai received the official arrangement.

? When I first came here, I definitely thought about finding a job, but people are definitely optimistic at this point because there is still a year and a half to go. Such a good platform, you will not be hopeful about the future? Yu Xiaotian said.

March 28, 2008, the Olympic Organizing Committee staff post-game resettlement work was officially launched. On this day, the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the State Grid Corporation, the State Power Development Corporation and other nine large enterprises and the Beijing Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission signed the "post-competition staff resettlement agreement".

For the signing of this agreement, the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games took the initiative to come forward to make contact with these units.? The agreement was signed on the basis of mutual communication and negotiation. The Organizing Committee of the Olympic Personnel Department Xu Zhijun, deputy director of the introduction. According to the agreement, these units will be based on the work needs to recruit a number of Olympic organizing committee staff to work.

The day after this news came out, Yu Xiaotian received a phone call from his family, who saw the news and thought that Yu Xiaotian would be? board? to work in these large state-owned enterprises. An intern at the Olympic Organizing Committee heard a similar rumor: "I heard that 80% of their P1s will be working for these large state-owned companies. I heard that 80% of their P1s will go to PetroChina and CNOOC.

The truth is that at the job fair, PetroChina offered more than a hundred jobs to the Organizing Committee, and CNOOC offered more than a dozen, which is a far cry from 80 percent of the 1,500 people.

However? Organizational and institutional strengths? still play a vital role. on October 16, 2008, Beijing Labor Security Vocational College held a special civil service selection test, specifically for the staff of the Olympic Organizing Committee. In this selection exercise, Beijing offered 100 civil servant positions for the staff of the Olympic Organizing Committee in positions below the rank of director, and 600 people took the exam. And just in 2008, the number of national civil service applicants has exceeded 1 million.

Yu Xiaotian did not get the chance to take this exam. According to the Civil Service Law and the Beijing Municipal regulations, Yu Xiaotian does not have a Beijing household registration, and does not have a master's degree, so he does not have the conditions to apply for the examination.

On the second day of the civil service exam, Yu Xiaotian was given a chance to apply for a job at a company, and on October 17th, the Beijing Talent Building hosted a special job fair for the staff of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG). Basically, the usual coworkers, can see all met.

In this job fair, PetroChina, Sinopec and other 64 enterprises and institutions for the 1500 Olympic organizing committee staff to provide 1,753 positions. 1: 1.17 ratio, in other job fairs is difficult to see.

Xu Zhijun, deputy minister of the Personnel Department of the Olympic Organizing Committee, said in an interview with China News Weekly: ? The purpose of doing so, one is to give play to the advantages of the organization and the system, to help these staff to better choose their jobs and employment after the Olympic Games. The other purpose is to fully and effectively allocate this group of high-quality internationalized talents who have been honed and tempered by the Olympics to the civil service and the enterprise and public institutions.?

Many enterprises are optimistic

? The choice is a two-way process.? The bank notified Yu Xiaotian, who passed the interview, to conduct a unified medical examination. This means that Yu Xiaotian will go to a new job.

Staff members who have been screened by the Olympic organizing committee and experienced the experience of the Olympics are favored by many companies. Wei Jizhong said in an interview with China News Weekly: ? I said when the Olympic Organizing Committee was established: the Olympic Organizing Committee is a big school to train talents.

? Suggestions and hopes were made, and we attach great importance to this from top to bottom. We feel that this is also a very good way to attract high quality talent. We will definitely try to recruit some people as much as possible when the people are in the right position,? Ms. Li of CNOOC's personnel department told China News Weekly, ? We also believe that these people are also very competitive in the market.?

? The average age is 35 years old, more than 50 percent have a master's degree, and more than 20 percent have returned from studying abroad or working overseas.? Many enterprises and institutions are interested in the Olympic Organizing Committee staff. Xu Zhijun, deputy director of the Personnel Department of the Olympic Organizing Committee, told China News Weekly that the China Development Bank alone has recruited 218 staff members from the OOC. Zhou Hua is one of them.

In addition to companies and government departments, the Guangzhou Organizing Committee of the Asian Games, the Organizing Committee of the Ninth National Universiade, and the Organizing Committee of the Sixth East Asian Games will also be the choice of these Olympic talents. This kind of to? Organizing Committee? as a career and moving to different organizing committees is common among staff members of previous Olympic organizing committees.

In preparation for the Ninth National Games and the Sixth East Asian Games, the Tianjin Municipal Personnel Bureau specializes in recruiting professionals for the Olympic Organizing Committee for the opening and closing ceremonies, investment promotion and planning. Mr. Liu, the relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Municipal Personnel Bureau, said: Tianjin's recruitment model is the organizing committee in the recruitment, but the identity of the staff will fall to a specific department. If the previous cadres above the division level can enter the Education Commission, Sports Bureau and other government departments; if not above the division level cadres, you can enter colleges and universities and other institutions, and then in the form of secondment into the organizing committee. If the staff do not want to stay in Tianjin, you can also take the form of flexible mobility: in the end of the relevant work, independent of the stay.