SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will open the way for graduates from non-engineering majors to undergo intensive training related to semiconductors for one year and obtain a job at related companies, the education ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology announced the basic plan [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment rate of university graduates in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, slipped to the lowest level in 10 years, a South Korean business lobby said Tuesday. According to a report published by the Korea Enterprises Federation (KEF) based on the Statistics Korea’s economic activity population [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Many arts and humanities graduates in South Korea apply for jobs irrelevant to their majors, a recent study has showed. Incruit, a local online job placement portal teamed up with part-time job app Albacall to conduct a survey on 733 job seekers, only 45.2 percent of whom said they [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10 months are required for young South Korean to find their first jobs after finishing school, and the higher their academic achievement is, the sooner they find jobs, a recent labor think tank report said. According to the September issue of the Labor Review issued by the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It becomes common that humanities majors are neglected while STEM (science-technology-engineering-math) majors take center stage in job markets across the world. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 6, 2013, that the unemployment rate of graduates majoring in English among recent college graduates in the United Sates was 9.8 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately the hiring practice of major corporations in the private and public sector is shifting toward evaluating the applicant’s comprehensive abilities including aptitude, attitude, character, and relationship, away from simple appraisal based on test scores and a list of manufactured experiences. For example, Small and Medium Business Corp. and [...]