Kasumigaseki's job hunting changes Confusion spreading in "pre-interview" August 4 18:02

The recruitment test for national civil servants was forced to postpone in Corona War. The bureaucratic students, thinking that "I think it would be difficult," found an interesting note on Twitter.
"The pre-interview was a visit to the government office." I
decided to cover what this meant.
(Masumi Arakawa, Kasumigaseki Real Report Team)

Major revision at the time of the comprehensive job examination at Corona

First of all, we will briefly organize recruiting activities to become a government employee.
If you are a career-track employee who is a so-called career bureaucracy, if you pass the mark sheet examination of the first examination and the written examination of the second examination, you will proceed to an interview called "visit government office".
This "visiting government office" is like an interview test of a private company in which a student who aims to be a bureaucrat wants to motivate himself or publicize at the government office he/she wants. Become.

However, this year, the test conducted every spring was postponed on July 5th due to Corona's eruption, so the subsequent "Visit to the government office" was greatly delayed until the end of July.

What is a prior interview?

The same applies to the private companies that are reviewing the recruitment schedule at Corona. However, since the number of candidates for bureaucracy has been decreasing for the past several years, I thought that Kasumigaseki would be difficult to hire, so I found a message like this on Twitter and other SNS.

"The pre-interview was a visit to the government office."
"I have doubts about the system of the pre-interview, and I would like to say who the national public servant does not follow the rules."

"Preliminary interview"? This is the first word I heard.
So, when I looked up the homepage of the personnel office, there was.

The purpose of the pre-interview is to say, "I am anxious about the examinees in Corona, so I will eliminate the anxiety and have the staff of the government office talk directly with the students to understand." It was written.
In addition,
▽ It will be stated that before the first examination,
▽No selection for recruitment will be held,
▽Participation in "Preliminary interview" will not be given preferential treatment by "Visit to government office"
..
In other words, it is clearly stated that, unlike a regular “government visit”, it is not an interview that directly leads to hiring.
So why did the students who participated say the same as before?

What did you feel when you directly hit the participating students?

Then, when I approached the participants, one female student who participated in this "preliminary interview" responded to the interview.

Female student
"The interview was online, but it was also face-to-face. It took one day, and sometimes it was just before the last train."

If you tell me the schedule...

(One day at a certain ministry) *From the story of a female student
▽Start at about 9am
▽Interview with the person in charge of the interview Approximately 15 minutes
▽Interview with the staff at the site (1) About 1 hour
▽Interview with the staff at the site (Part 2) About 1 hour
▽ Interview with on-site staff (Part 3) About 1 hour
▽ Interview
with interview staff 15 minutes ▽ Interview with staff such as Human Resources Department 30 minutes to 1 hour

At the long time, we discussed about motivation for motivation and how to solve current social issues for nearly two hours. It is said that he interviewed about 6 staff members from younger to upper director level and on many days.
"Isn't the student who passed the written test do so well?" said the female student, saying, "I'm surprised.

Female student
"The staff members spoke to me politely, but on the other hand, I felt a sense of incongruity. It was an explanation that "it has nothing to do with recruitment and selection", but actually it does not. I didn't think I would."

Questions that emerged

First, I introduced the website of the National Personnel Authority, but unlike the “Visit to the government office”, which targets successful applicants for the written test, the “preliminary interview” is just an explanation session and should not be related to recruitment.
However, according to the students who interviewed, there were occasions when they were given an evaluation.

Female student
"At the end of the interview, I was told that "You have a very high evaluation." "(High evaluation) I can quit job hunting anymore." "Don't go to other ministries." A friend of mine hinted that it was close to being secret, and I was asked by other staff about which other ministries I was planning to receive, and I went to other ministries, saying, "I can do something more interesting." There was also a situation where I was strongly persuaded not to do so. There was a call from the ministry that I interviewed the day before, and I was sometimes asked what was asked by the ministry that I visited today.

Are these deviations from the rules?
The guide for students even wrote that they should report if there is a violation in the meeting.

"May violate the method of operating the pre-interview meeting. Please notify one of the ministries and agencies promptly."

Then, when I asked, "Did you not point to the government office?", the female student who interviewed said:

Female student
"Surely the interview guide says that you should report if there is strange management, but the report destination is each ministry. I think that it may be disadvantageous for future recruitment, I couldn't say so much, and some students became less attractive to the ministries and switched to private employment."

I asked the ministry

This worries is justifiable. Therefore, when I asked the personnel managers of each ministry and agency about these questions, I received the reply that it was not an interview meeting regarding recruitment.

▽Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
"It was a place to give advice as to whether it would be better to enter the ministry or go in a different direction."
▽ Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
"It is just a matching place and not a selection"
▽ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
"It was an important opportunity to face each other face-to-face and to get to know each other in real time, as the students became anxious and needed to get closer to the ministries and agencies as soon as possible."
▽ Atsushi Ministry of Labor
"The purpose was to promote matching at interviews so that visits to government offices could be carried out smoothly."

Honne and Tatemae

However, when I listened to it a little more, there were several people in charge who said this with the intention of not revealing the name of the ministry.

▽ Male bureaucracy A
"I think that there is an aspect of recruitment in the sense that we will narrow down the students."
▽ Male bureaucracy B
"I will approach the student and say "Please decide here today" It seems that there were times when such words flew over. I think that there are places where the rules decided in advance became smashed and exceeded the glue. I am sorry for the students feeling confused and angry I think, "said
▽ men bureaucracy C
" whole adoption schedule that has become to defeat behind, to inquiries about the particularly strong ministries with the private sector, was the interview meeting, which began from the sense of crisis that it will not be held back a student this time In a sense, I think that the hiring activity has actually pushed ahead with the visit to government offices.”

The personnel office that puts the whole together...

What I felt during the interview was the frustration of Kasumigaseki.
The number of applicants for this year's career recruitment exam is over 16,000.
It has become the lowest ever since FY2012 when the current examination system was established.
Finally, when I explained the actual situation of the pre-face-to-face meeting that I found during the interview to the Human Resources Center, the following reply came back.

Personnel officer in charge
``When visiting the government office, the personnel office and each ministry and others collaborate to create rules, but the pre-interview meeting was the first unprecedented effort that each ministry agreed and worked on, The NHR did not take the lead.I left the specific operations to each ministry and did not grasp the details of the whole here. If there really was an evaluation to students and a late night restraint, etc. I think it's a problem and I think it's out of the question. I'm not sure if we'll have this meeting next year or later, but we must avoid confusing the students. I think it has to be done.''

It used to be Kasumigaseki, which was once aimed by the elites, but the times have changed, and it is said that it is a challenge to collect good human resources.
However, after all, it is a national government employee recruitment test.
I want you to try to be fair and satisfy your students.