The government decided to advance the recruitment schedule of public institutions this year to respond to the employment shock caused by Corona 19.
Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki and Minister of Strategy and Finance said at a meeting of the Central Central Countermeasure Headquarters for Emergency Economy held at the Seoul Government Complex on the 13th, “We will hire more than 45% of the number of people hired by public institutions in the first half of 2021.”
▲ Hong Nam-ki, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance.
The number of newly hired public institutions in 2021 will also increase from 2020.
Kim Yong-beom, the first vice minister of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, said at a briefing that “we are encouraging new recruitment to public institutions in view of the difficulties in the job market of young people.” “
He said, “In January, we will prepare guidelines for the operation of interns at public institutions, so that we will hire 22,000 hands-on interns every year.” .
The government will hire 36,000 new public officials in 2021.
Specifically, a plan was planned to hire more than 30,000 new personnel required for the public, such as police, maritime police, and fire, and 6,450 new government officials of the 5th, 7th and 9th grades.
152 local public corporations, including the Urban Railroad Corporation and the Facility Management Corporation, also decided to start hiring new jobs in January.
In addition, 830,000, or 80%, of the 1042,000 direct jobs project planned in 2021 will be hired within the first quarter.
Local quarantine jobs that will support both employment and quarantine will also be created for public transportation facilities.
28,000 social service jobs will also be recruited within the first quarter. This represents 44% of the newly discovered social service jobs (63,000) in 2021.
Deputy Prime Minister Hong predicted, “The physical strength of the job market is considerably deteriorated due to the COVID-19 employment shock, and the difficult employment situation is expected to continue from January to February.” [비즈니스포스트 조윤호 기자]