Six out of ten conglomerates have either failed to plan for new hiring in the first half of this year or are not planning to hire one. Even if new hires are employed, 76.4% of respondents said they would use occasional hiring, up 9.7 percentage points from the same period last year.
This means that although Corona 19 is slowly being released by the distribution of vaccines, the youth employment market is still frozen. Experts said, “Rather than insisting on’good jobs’ such as large corporations, the’bypass strategy’, which changes jobs after completing a career in small and medium-sized companies, will also be a good strategy in the era of frequent hiring.”
Half of hiring companies “similar to last year’s hiring size”
The Korea Economic Research Institute, a member of the National Federation of Entrepreneurs, conducted a survey of 500 companies with sales in the first half of 2021 through research and research, a polling agency, and 63.6% of respondents (110) hired one during the first half of this year. It turns out that they have not done so or have not yet established a hiring plan.
The proportion of companies with no new hires and those with undecided hiring plans were 17.3% and 46.3%, respectively. Considering that the survey in March last year was 8.8% and 32.5%, respectively, Han Gyeong-yeon analyzed that the job market was worse than last year.
Only half (50.0%) of the companies that set up a new hiring plan for the first half of this year had similar hiring sizes as last year. Compared to last year, 30.0% of companies were willing to increase hiring, and 20.0% of companies were willing to reduce.
The biggest reason companies are reducing hiring was’management opacity due to Corona 19′. Only half of the respondents (51.1%) answered that they would not hire new hires because of the’slump in the domestic and overseas economy and business sectors’. ‘Employment rigidity’ (12.8%),’Difficulty securing suitable talents for necessary jobs’ (10.6%), and’Increase in labor costs such as raising the minimum wage’ (8.5%) were also followed.
However, companies that plan to increase recruitment are’to secure future talent’ (75.0%),’Esg (Environment, Society, Governance), 4th Industrial Revolution, etc., increasing demand for new industries or new jobs’ (8.3%). I heard it for reasons such as.
76% “I will also hire new recruits at any time”
New recruitment was also a big trend. 76.4% of respondents said they would use occasional hiring in new hiring, an increase of 9.7 percentage points from the same period last year. 38.2% of companies are hiring new personnel only through occasional employment. Only 23.6% of companies said they would only hire openly.
When asked about the recent trends in the recruitment market, 29.1% cited the increase in the proportion of frequent recruitment (29.1%). Some respondents were’Strengthening career recruitment’ (20.3%),’Increase in the introduction of non-face-to-face employment (19.1%) and’Increase in new hiring using artificial intelligence (AI)’ (13.9%).
As a policy that the government and the National Assembly should pursue to increase recruitment of new college graduates, the most answer was “relaxation of corporate regulations” (35.2%). This was followed by’Expanding incentives for companies with increased employment’ (24.0%),’Support for fostering new industry growth engines’ (21.1%), and’Improving the dual structure of the labor market focused on regular workers and unions’ (10.3%).
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