<Anchor> This is a
friendly economic time. Today (6th), I will be with reporter Kim Hye-min. It's already September. Usually in September, the full-fledged employment season begins. But last year, because of the corona virus, it was so bad, so the expectation that this year will be better has increased a lot?
<Reporter>
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, companies have also drastically reduced their recruitment since last year. Not long ago, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted a survey.
Among them, there was a question asked about the 'company award' that Koreans most desired, and when asked, one in three answered 'a company that creates a lot of jobs'.
The highest percentage of all age groups, from teens to 60s, answered this question, but as the pattern of increasing and decreasing COVID-19 cases is repeated for a long time, the household economy of the people is getting tougher. Therefore, the people's desire for job creation, which is the original role of companies, is growing.
<Anchor>
How about like this wind? Do you think the job situation will be good this year?
<Reporter>
To give you the conclusion in advance, it's a little better than last year, but it's still not that good.
The Korea Economic Research Institute asked 500 companies in sales about their plans for new hires in the second half of the year.
About 13% of companies said they would not hire them. The number of companies that did not set up a new hiring plan also accounted for 54.5%.
It is a little better compared to last year, when companies that answered these two answers exceeded 74% of the total, but it looks relatively good last year because the domestic and international economy was not very good due to the Corona 19 crisis last year.
Considering the recent momentum of the fourth COVID-19 pandemic, the cold wave in the recruitment market is expected to continue for a while.
Still, the hopeful part is that more than half of the large companies with new hiring plans said they would increase their hiring from last year.
<Anchor> It's a
little better than last year, but it's still really bad. However, if you have any information that might be helpful for job seekers, please let me know.
<Reporter>
First of all, there were many companies that wanted to hire untact as in the era of COVID-19. In this year's new university graduate recruitment, untact recruitment has been used or is being considered. More than 70% of companies responded this way.
Last year it was 54%, which is a huge increase.
So, recently, there have been quite a few companies that ask you to submit a video file containing a self-introduction video or conduct a remote interview.
The sad part is that from the point of view of job seekers, there is more to prepare. This means that the cost of purchasing equipment and the like is also higher.
In addition, many companies have introduced ad-hoc hiring, which only hires the necessary manpower when needed.
This year, 63.6% of companies using random recruitment for new college graduates were hired, which also increased by 11 percentage points compared to last year.
Of these, 24% of the companies said they would only proceed with temporary recruitment. In addition, more and more companies are willing to hire 'experienced' rather than new hires.
Although it is an efficient recruitment method for companies, job seekers have fewer and fewer places to write job applications.
<Anchor>
Reporter Kim Lastly, today it seems like a bit of a niche market, but these days, companies are focusing on other things besides making money like social contribution. Are you saying that you are trying to recruit a lot of talent?
<Reporter> If
you know in advance what kind of talent companies need, it will be easier to find a job. Recently, ESG management is what companies are paying attention to, and it refers to management that focuses on non-financial factors such as environment, society, and governance in addition to making money.
For example, ethical aspects such as social contribution activities or improvement of corporate governance are becoming more important.
One in four companies plans to hire ESG-related talent in the second half of this year. It increased by more than 11 percentage points from the first half.
ESG is a global trend and it is expected that it will become more and more important, so it is expected that it will be of some help in hiring if you accumulate related specifications and experience in advance.