SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A decision by Incheon International Airport Co. to give full employment status to temporary workers has stirred up a furious debate about a level playing field and angered some for what they called reverse discrimination. Earlier this week, the public company, one of the country’s most coveted among jobseekers, [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — 4 out of 10 job seekers passed job interviews and were provisionally hired, according to a recent survey. However, due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, they have been unable to start work. According to a survey of 2,052 job seekers conducted by online job portal Saramin, 40.7 percent said [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Many job seekers feel that physical appearance influences the recruitment process. Saramin, an online job portal, conducted a survey of 1,627 job seekers asking them whether looks are thought of as ‘career specifications’, 74.8 percent of whom answered ‘yes’. Respondents believed physical appearance influenced the recruitment process as much [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The amount of state allowances paid to those unemployed or seeking jobs soared to a record high of nearly 900 billion won (US$738 million) in March, data showed Monday, due largely to the negative economic impact from the coronavirus outbreak. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Millennial job seekers prefer companies where they can engage in tasks they like, rather than companies offering a high annual salary. JobKorea, a local job search portal, conducted a survey of 790 job seekers born between 1980 and the 2000s, 41.9 percent of whom said they want to work [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of one of the worst unemployment crises ever, and with a rapidly growing number of the new coronavirus cases, the situation for job seekers is becoming more and more dire. As economic uncertainty mounts, there are many cases where major companies have postponed or canceled their [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As it has become difficult to find regular employment due to the ongoing job crisis, many job seekers desperately wish to be “dirt spoon interns,” in charge of simple tasks. The so-called “Spoon Class Theory” is a representative expression that refers to the idea that individuals in a country [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of those in their 20s and 30s want to be “job-hoppers” rather than settle into a routine life. Job-hopping refers to the act of seeking a different job every two to three years for a higher salary or to improve one’s career prospects. According to a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus outbreak is driving local authorities to cancel job fairs and job seekers to postpone their applications. The city of Ansan in Gyeonggi Province decided to cancel both this month and next month’s job fair that used to be held regularly on the 19th every month. Officials in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the job outlook increasingly bleak for young Koreans, more than half of new job seekers are willing to accept an offer of employment even if they are not regular workers or even non-regular workers such as interns or contract workers. According to the survey of 2,816 job seekers [...]