SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite South Korea’s high youth unemployment, local smaller firms are struggling to hire new workers as young job seekers prefer higher-paying jobs at big businesses, financial firms and state-run companies, data showed Monday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Small Business Institute in 2015, more than 80 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Recruitment season is back for young South Koreans. But two out of three major companies have either decided not to hire entry level employees or have yet to decide on their schedule for the biannual recruitment procedure – which usually takes place from the end of February to March, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group, South Korea’s biggest business conglomerate, has not yet set a date for its annual recruitment, group officials said Friday, as the group’s top leadership has been under investigation amid a snowballing corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – It seems as though finding a job in Korea is getting tougher by the year. In a recent survey of 2,653 job applicants by Saramin, an online recruitment platform, 79.3 percent of the respondents said the job search process was more difficult during the second half of this year. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The road to employment is more arduous than ever for young South Koreans with the country’s youth unemployment rate (aged 15 to 29) reaching record levels, naturally leading to more companies hiring older workers for entry level positions. According to recruitment web portal Saramin, 84.9 percent of 649 surveyed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Prospective job seekers hoping to land a job with Sempio, a local food manufacturer, will now have to practice their chopsticks skills. The company announced Monday that it will implement job test that evaluates applicants’ chopsticks skills starting in December. Interviewers will observe the use of chopsticks with the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Job applications can be stressful, especially in Korea where resume screening is often followed by an in-house personality and aptitude test, and one, two, or sometimes even three interviews. Those that keep failing the rigorous process of job hiring, however, can be left wondering whether there might be certain [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite perpetual criticism of the perfection-seeking recruitment process at Korean companies, a recent study has revealed that prying job application requirements and academic background-driven employment systems are still prevalent among the majority of domestic firms. The study was carried out by the Ministry of Employment & Labor and Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The recruitment process at Korea’s top conglomerates, and even at smaller companies, is a grueling experience. There is a first interview, followed by a second, and sometimes, a third. But before the interviews comes an in-house personality and aptitude test that is the worst of SAT and GRE Math; [...]
SEJONG, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – More young Koreans ended up working unskilled labor and temporary contract jobs last year. Employment figures show that many young people of working age even accepted employment opportunities that were far below their qualifications and capabilities. According to a recently published report entitled “Recent Employment Trend of Younger Generation and [...]