Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jae-gap enters a press conference on the 3rd to announce plans to promote youth employment at the government building in Seoul. yunhap news
Six out of ten large corporations have either failed to plan for new hiring in the first half of this year or are not planning to hire one at all. As a result of the’New Hiring Plan for the First Half of 2021′ survey conducted by the Korea Economic Research Institute under the National Federation of Entrepreneurs, it was found that 63.6% of responding companies (110) have not hired a single person or have yet to establish a hiring plan. appear. 17.3% of companies with “0 people” for new hires and 46.3% of “undecided recruitment plans” In a survey conducted by Han Kyung-yeon in March last year, the proportion of companies responding to these two items were 8.8% and 32.5%, respectively. Han Kyung-yeon evaluated that “the youth recruitment market is freezing more than last year.” Only half (50.0%) of the companies that set up a new hiring plan in the first half of this year had similar hiring sizes to those of last year. Compared to last year, 30.0% of companies plan to increase hiring and 20.0% of companies want to reduce it. Companies that do not want to hire or increase new hires cited the’slump in the domestic and foreign economy and industry’ (51.1%) as the biggest reason. Companies that plan to increase new recruitment cited’the dimension of securing future talent’ (75.0%).
Companies showed great interest in recruiting from time to time. 76.4% of respondents said they would use occasional hiring in new hiring. 38.2% of companies are hiring new personnel only through occasional hiring. Only 23.6% of companies said they would only hire openly. Regarding the recent trend forecast for the recruitment market, 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%). The survey was conducted from February 3rd to 23rd (e-mail online survey) through Research & Research, an opinion polling agency. By Jo Gye-wan, staff reporter