SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When it comes to part-time jobs, the quality of the work trumps everything, until it doesn’t. Online recruiter Albamon (“alba” means part-time work) conducted an informal survey by asking 4,711 job seekers to define the qualities that make a job a “god alba”. At 52.6 percent, “Fun work that I [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Four out of 10 job seekers in their 20s and 30s have prepared for state tests to become a civil servant, a poll showed Friday, a sign that government jobs are popular in South Korea amid growing job insecurity. The leading online job search portal JobKorea said its poll [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A majority of Koreans were found to think “lowly” of their job. According to Saramin, a local job search platform, 52.3 percent of 1,504 surveyed respondents felt this way. The figure was the highest for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (57.2 percent), followed by mid-sized companies (44.7 percent), [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The employment rate for women in their late 30s has reached its highest level in seven years, thanks to the widespread implementation of flextime scheduling. Flextime offers employees the freedom to choose their own workdays, and start and finish times. According to Statistics Korea Thursday, last month’s employment rate [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of self-employed South Koreans in their 30s has been on a steady rise since late last year as a prolonged economic slump forces more young people to set up one-man operations instead of finding jobs, a report showed Monday. According to the report by the Korea Labor [...]
SEJONG, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of women getting married without a job or while they were still students has declined sharply over the past 10 years. Experts say the phenomenon is caused by the bad economy, which forces both spouses to work for a living. According to Statistics Korea, 102,915 women got [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – As the years pass, young people who seek jobs are finding the process more and more difficult. Alba Heaven, a portal site for classified ads, conducted a survey on 1,792 job seekers in their 20s and 30s. The results showed that 7 out of 10 people (66.6 percent) felt [...]
Seoul, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A company where only ‘old folks’ are eligible to work will be launched. Dongjak-gu, a district in Seoul, announced on July 20 that they would establish a company called ‘Happiness for the Elderly Inc.’ that will employ elderly citizens over 60. The district will be investing all of the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of Korean adolescents are willing to live with their future partner without getting married to them, while 6 of 10 adolescents are distraught over various issues in their lives, especially about their studies, according to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) - Even in an uncertain economy, 40% of employed Americans say they want to leave corporate jobs, according to a new national study commissioned by CreativeLive, the world’s largest online education network. Further, 41 million1 employed Americans would be willing to take a pay cut for a job [...]