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Yoon-ho Choi, head of Samsung Electronics’ Management Support Department (President), gives a congratulatory remark at the 3rd completion ceremony of the’Samsung Youth SW Academy’ held online at the Samsung Electronics Seoul Multi-Campus Education Center on the 23rd. [사진 제공 = 삼성전자]Minji Kim (27), who joined the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation as a developer and has been receiving training for new employees since the 21st. He was a job-ready student who was frustrated by high job opportunities a year ago. After graduating from a university in Seoul in 2017, after completing a graduate course, I started looking for a job, but there was no such achievement for a year.
As he was getting tired of the repeated news of’fails’, an opportunity for a reversal came to him. He knocked on the door of’Samsung Youth Software Academy (SSAFY)’ on rumors that the program was good and the support was full. Mr. Kim said, “I was born in the humanities field and had no knowledge of software, so I applied for it because I thought that the information technology (IT) field was promising in the future,” he said.
The’Samsung Youth Software Academy’, which Samsung Electronics runs to strengthen young people’s software capabilities, has been found to have found jobs to over 1,000 young job seekers in the past two years. It is evaluated that it has established itself as a representative software talent training center in Korea, with the employment rate of graduates reaching 62%.
Samsung Electronics announced on the 23rd that it had held the completion ceremony for the 3rd SSAFY at the Seoul Multi-Campus Education Center. In consideration of the Corona 19 situation, about 400 out of four trainees from four regions, including Seoul, Daejeon, Gwangju, and Gumi, participated online in the non-face-to-face completion ceremony. SSAFY is one of the major programs included in Samsung’s plan to invest 180 trillion won and hire 40,000 people, announced in August 2018. The main goal is to provide software education to 10,000 young people.
Trainees receive a total of 1600 hours of intensive training for 8 hours a day for one year, and Samsung Electronics provides an education subsidy of 1 million won per month to all trainees. Education is divided into two semesters for one year. In the first semester, basic software education such as algorithms and coding is provided, and in the second semester, in-depth education is conducted using the same development method as the business environment based on a project.
According to Samsung Electronics, a total of 1623 people went through SSAFY from the start of the first training in December 2018 until the completion of the third. Among them, the number of trainees who succeeded in finding employment reached 1009, and the employment rate was 62%. In particular, 31% of trainees who succeeded in getting a job were found to be software non-majors.
There are 370 places where trainees are employed. Among them are major domestic companies and financial companies such as Hyundai Motor Company, NH Nonghyup Bank, Shinhan Bank and Hyundai Card, as well as IT companies such as Samsung Electronics, Kakao, SK Holdings C&C, Naver, and Lotte Information and Communication. Samsung Electronics said, “Out of the 500 4th-year trainees scheduled to complete next June, 91 have already succeeded in early employment.”
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