The sanitation department recruits college students to sweep the streets. Is this a waste of talent? This raises controversy.

The sanitation department’s recruitment of college students to sweep roads has caused controversy over whether it is a waste of talent

Newly recruited college students should first become sanitation workers

Zhangjiagang City Environmental Sanitation Department 35 college students competed for 5 positions, sparking heated debate about whether talent is wasted

The Environmental Sanitation Department of Zhangjiagang City Urban Management Bureau recently recruited 5 college students to the public, and dozens of college students competed for the job. On February 10, five college students were selected from 35 applicants through interviews and accepted on the spot. A week later, they took to the streets to sweep roads, haul garbage, and work as sanitation workers, which aroused heated discussion among local citizens. It is understood that during the six-month internship period, they must pass 16 work content training at the grassroots level before they can become contract employees of the sanitation office.

35 college students competed for 5 positions

The Zhangjiagang City Environmental Sanitation Department used online registration for this recruitment. According to the urban management law enforcement team members, the male height is 1.7 meters and the female height is 1.7 meters. The standard is 1.6 meters and a college degree or above. The recruitment notice states: After admission, candidates will go to the sanitation front line for six months to one year of grassroots training, and then positions will be assigned based on their ability and performance. Since there are no major restrictions, just over a month after the recruitment notice was released, 35 undergraduate and junior college students came for interviews.

This is the first time that college students are recruited into sanitation positions, and the recruiting unit attaches great importance to it. The Discipline Inspection Commission of Zhangjiagang Municipal Urban Management Bureau and the Environmental Sanitation Department specially formed a working group of judges. The interview results were based on the on-site scoring and comprehensive evaluation of the jury, and the list of admitted candidates was announced on the spot. On February 10, after a morning interview, 2 undergraduates and 3 college students were selected from 35 applicants. Their average age was 23 years old. According to the recruitment requirements, the five newly recruited college students have recently been assigned to front-line sanitation jobs. They will work hard with sanitation workers and undergo six months of grassroots training, including road cleaning, garbage removal, public toilet cleaning, 16 tasks including swill collection. On February 18, five college students took to the streets to begin their internship life of sweeping the streets and collecting swill.

You also need to pay attention to skills when dragging trash cans

Lu Shaohua, 23, just graduated from Huaiyin Institute of Technology last year with a bachelor's degree in transportation engineering. After graduation, he attended several job fairs and fully realized the importance of employment. Difficult situation. When he saw the recruitment information of Zhangjiagang Environmental Sanitation Department on the Internet, he signed up without hesitation. He felt very lucky to be admitted in the end, because he was one of the few college classmates who found a job, not to mention that he entered a career. unit.

?In fact, our young people have a very open concept of employment. My classmates all thought it was good when they heard that I was already working in the sanitation station. There was no incomprehension or discrimination. ?He told reporters that he is ready for the test of six months of front-line work. It is appropriate for young people to go to the grassroots level for training when they first enter the unit. Some of his classmates have entered a good engineering company and have to work on construction sites just like they have just started working.

On his first day on the job on February 18, Lu Shaohua was assigned to the Sanitation Office in the north of the city. His job was to collect automobile garbage. He started working at 6:40 every morning and collected more than 100 people in the area. The trash cans are dragged one by one to the garbage removal truck, and then the trash cans are returned to their original places after the garbage is emptied. ?It turns out that there are skills for doing every job, and dragging the trash can is no exception. ? Lu Shaohua said.

My hands blistered on the second day of work

When the reporter found Cai Hong, she was pushing a garbage truck on the road section and checking the road hygiene with her colleagues. The reporter and her were on the roadside. Chatted. Cai Hong graduated from Jiangsu University with a major in biotechnology. She applied for the job because she felt that her major was related to environmental sanitation work. Although her parents were worried that their daughter would not be able to do it, they still respected Cai Hong's choice. Her father said to her: ?It’s okay to give it a try. We didn’t ask you to do any housework when you grew up. It’s good to work. ?

Cai Hong’s first internship project was a 21-day manual road cleaning project. It was purely physical work and the working hours were very early.

Coincidentally, Cai Hong lives in the urban area of ??Zhangjiagang, and the road below her house is in the section of road she is responsible for cleaning. ?I was very nervous on my first day at work because I was afraid that my classmates and acquaintances would see the joke. But now I am used to it and I will take the initiative to say hello to them when they meet me. ?Cai Hong pointed to a building not far away and told reporters that the third floor in the middle is her home, and her parents can see her work place through the window.

Cai Hong told reporters that she gets up at 4 a.m. every day and starts working from 4:30 to 11 noon without a break. Then from 3 to 5 p.m. is the time to pick up garbage. Cai Hong told reporters that the biggest difficulty at work is that she has little strength and it is difficult to hold such a heavy broom. It has also been rainy recently, making the road particularly difficult to sweep. Cai Hong opened her palms and showed them to reporters. It turned out that blisters appeared on her hands on the second day of work. ?Later I went home and pricked it with a needle, otherwise it would have hurt when I held the broom. ?

An old employee of the Zhangjiagang Environmental Sanitation Department told reporters that several college students were all only children. At first, they were worried about whether they could do such dirty work as sweeping the road, but they came to work in a few days. His performance proved his ability.

Is it a waste of talent for college students to sweep roads?

College students start their employment by sweeping roads, which has won praise from some citizens. But some people also question: Will college students joining the sanitation union cause a waste of talent?

Many people think that recruiting college students for the Environmental Sanitation Department is a waste of talent and overqualification, but this is actually wrong. Lin Zhihong, director of the Zhangjiagang Municipal Environmental Sanitation Department, told reporters that first of all, in terms of the functions of the Environmental Sanitation Department, sanitation work is not as simple as sweeping away garbage as ordinary citizens think. For example, around the goal of harmless disposal of domestic waste, we sanitation workers need to continuously learn advanced technologies and concepts. Secondly, in the long run, the overall quality of the sanitation team urgently needs to be improved. In view of the current talent shortage and low cultural quality of the sanitation department, it is very necessary to recruit talented post-80s college students to inject fresh blood. Director Lin also explained that allowing five college students to participate in six-month on-the-job internships on the front line will not only help them become familiar with grassroots work, but also cultivate their good moral character of being hard-working and hard-working.

According to the reporter’s understanding, after these five college students have undergone six-month internships, the Environmental Sanitation Department will combine their work conditions and comprehensive abilities to arrange appropriate management positions based on their strengths. However, for During the internship process, those who perform poorly, have weak abilities, and are incompetent for the job will be automatically eliminated and the candidates will be asked to find their own jobs. After officially signing a contract with the Zhangjiagang City Environmental Sanitation Department to become contract employees, their annual salary in the first year is 20,000 yuan. ;