Kyung-Yeon Han “64% of large companies have no plans to hire for the first half of the year”

Survey on new hiring plans for the first half of 2021 targeting 500 companies with sales
As for the policy that needs to expand recruitment,’deregulation in the labor sector’ is most often cited.

[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Nae Nae-kyung = Six out of ten large companies have either failed to plan or are not planning to hire new recruits in the first half of this year. This is a significantly higher number than the same period last year, and the aftermath of Corona 19 froze the youth employment market.

According to the’New Recruitment Plan for the First Half of 2021′, which was commissioned by the Korea Economic Research Institute (Kyung-Yeon Han) to research and research a polling agency on the 7th, six out of ten large corporations (63.6%) were in the first half of this year. They responded that none of them had been hired or that they had not yet developed a hiring plan.

[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Nae-kyung Na = Trends in the employment market in the first half of 2021 [자료=한경연] 2021.03.07 [email protected]

The proportion of companies with zero recruitment is 17.3%, and the proportion of companies with no hiring plans is 46.3%. Han Kyung-yeon said that the proportion of companies with’no new hires or plans undecided’ increased significantly from the same period last year, and that the new hiring market in the first half of this year is expected to freeze even more.

Companies who responded that they would not hire new recruits or increase the size of their hiring were answered because ▲The domestic and overseas economic and business sectors were sluggish (51.1%) ▲Employment rigidity (12.8%) ▲Difficulty securing talents suitable for necessary jobs (10.6%) ▲The lowest wage They responded in the order of an increase in the burden of labor costs (8.5%) such as an increase.

Companies that responded that they would increase new hiring are the reasons ▲ to secure future talents (75.0%) regardless of the economic situation ▲ to increase the demand for new industries or new jobs such as ESG and the 4th Industrial Revolution (8.3%), etc. I put it.

Companies are expected to actively adopt occasional hiring during the first half of this year. Among the companies surveyed, 76.4% of the companies that would use occasional hiring for new hires were up 9.7%p from the same period last year. Specifically, 38.2% of companies plan to hire new personnel only through occasional hiring, and 38.2% of companies plan to use both open and occasional hiring. On the other hand, only 23.6% of companies were willing to proceed with the open recruitment method.

Companies also pointed to the trend forecast of the recruitment market ▲The increase in the proportion of occasional recruitment (29.1%) is the first, and they predicted that the promotion of occasional recruitment in the recruitment market will be remarkable.

In addition, companies are notable for ▲ reinforcement of recruitment for experienced workers (20.3%) ▲ increase in untact recruitment (19.1%) ▲ increase in new recruitment for AI utilization (13.9%), and increase in recruitment of human resources related to the 4th Industrial Revolution (6.8%). It was cited as a change in the job market.

Companies first pointed out the first policy that the government or the National Assembly should promote to increase recruitment of new college graduates ▲Relieving corporate regulations such as labor and industry (35.2%) ▲Expanding incentives for companies that increase employment (24.0%) ▲New industry growth engine They cited support for fostering (21.1%) ▲ improving the dual structure of the labor market focused on regular workers and unions (10.3%) ▲ solving job mismatches through strengthening career guidance and providing employment information (9.4%).

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