National University Company's Open Recruitment of Cadres through the "Five-Gate System"


         On the morning of February 21, Guoda Company held a self-recommendation mid-level cadre competition and defense activity to conduct on-site examinations of the professional knowledge, management knowledge, work ideas, and adaptability of the participating cadre candidates. After a comprehensive evaluation of the five stages of self-recommendation, investigation, evaluation, roadshow defense, and selection, two outstanding team leaders and professional and technical personnel stood out and were appointed as mid-level cadres, injecting new vitality into the company's cadre team.

 

        Reforming the cadre appointment system, "five-stage" talent selection

 
In order to meet the requirements of the times and the situation and build a high-quality cadre team, since 2010, Guoda Company has innovated and reformed the cadre selection and competition system, exploring and creating a novel "five-stage" approach to publicly select and compete for cadres among employees.
 
Guoda Company's cadre competition implements a "five-stage" system: 1. Self-recommendation stage: The company determines the number of cadre competition positions based on actual needs, and self-recommended personnel submit self-recommendation letters based on their professional expertise and characteristics; 2. Investigation stage: The company's investigation team uses individual interviews, democratic assessments, and interviews with the candidates to widely solicit opinions from the heads, employee backbones, and team leaders of the self-recommended personnel's units, forming an investigation report; 3. Evaluation stage: Headed by the rotating general manager, the company's senior executives and the investigation team participate, and based on the investigation results, candidates are determined according to a certain proportion; 4. Roadshow stage: Candidates give presentations based on their work performance, personal strengths, potential, and "If I were a mid-level cadre," and interact with participating cadres and employees on-site. A judging panel composed of senior and mid-level cadres and employee representatives evaluates and scores the candidates; 5. Selection stage: The manager's office studies and determines the final cadre appointees based on the self-recommendation letters, investigation reports, evaluations, and roadshow activity evaluations.
 
In 2011, Guoda Company selected four outstanding employees as mid-level cadres through the "five-stage" competition process of self-recommendation, investigation, roadshow, evaluation, and selection. After one year of work assessment and year-end performance evaluation, their performance has been fully recognized by cadres and employees. This provides a reference for the company to continue deepening the reform of the cadre appointment system and establishing a more fair, reasonable, and standardized cadre selection method.
 
Employee face-to-face defense, competing for cadres based on real skills
 
Based on the needs of the company's strategic development, in 2012, Guoda Company decided to add two new mid-level deputy positions on the production line. This competition is a new round of mid-level cadre selection, deepening the company's reform of the cadre appointment system since the implementation of cadre competition for positions in 2010.
 
In order to make the cadre appointment system more fair and reasonable, based on the experience of cadre competition in 2011, Guoda Company supplemented and improved the "five-stage" system, adding a free debate session. The purpose is to comprehensively evaluate the professional quality and work ability of the candidates through face-to-face debates among the competitors, allowing truly capable and talented individuals to stand out.
 
This cadre competition was mainly aimed at team leaders and professional and technical personnel, and received a positive response from the company's employees, with 14 eligible employees participating in the election. After self-recommendation registration, organizational investigation, democratic evaluation, and roadshow presentations, six participating employees entered the defense stage. The defense was conducted using on-site questions and on-site scoring. According to the host's questions, the candidates thought quickly and answered quickly. After two rounds of quick answers to the same question, a free debate was conducted to refute the opponent's views and supplement and improve their own answers. The face-to-face debate was intense and not only tested the knowledge, language organization, and expression abilities of each candidate but also tested their ability to respond quickly, think, and answer quickly.
 
After the defense, the company's chairman and president, Xu Yongxiang, had an on-site interactive exchange with the six candidates. The six candidates introduced their strengths, advantages, and potential "three treasures," combined with their understanding of the deputy position, explained their views on how to be a good deputy, and made sincere evaluations based on the performance of the other five candidates. Finally, Chairman Xu Yongxiang commented on the defense activity, highly praising the performance of the six candidates, and at the same time clearly pointed out the future work ideas for the company's cadre selection. By supplementing and improving the "five-stage" system, a fair, just, and open environment is created, allowing employees to compete for cadres based on their real skills and creating opportunities for outstanding talents to stand out.
 
The implementation of Guoda Company's "five-stage" cadre competition system has broken the previous practice of cadre appointments being recommended by various units and appointed by the company's investigation, fully reflecting the principles of fairness, justice, and openness, creating opportunities for employees to fully demonstrate their talents, and avoiding the practice of relying on personal connections in cadre appointments, making the cadre system more scientific, reasonable, innovative, and contemporary, and laying the foundation for the creation of the company's modern management methods.

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